International activities

From 5 to 8 November at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, several meetings of experts to prepare accounting records in 2015: Expert meeting on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management - November 6, members of the steering group meeting of the "Europe's forests", devoted to the preparation of the report "Europe's forests -2015 "- 7 November, a meeting of experts on the European forest types - November 8.

Deputy Director of the VNIILM (national expert of the "Europe's forests") Filipchuk AN took part in the last 2 events.

The discussion considered the positive results of the report, "Forests in Europe 2011", as well as possible ways to improve it, in complementing the information that characterizes the sustainable management of forests and the "green economy." The main direction of improvement of the report - a deeper analysis of the available information of the Global Forest Resources Assessment. FAO has prepared a draft of a new questionnaire for the FRA-2015, to be used also for the report, "Forests in Europe 2015." Another direction - improvement of quality information.

With the participation of the Russian geographical scope of the report is part of not only Europe but also in North Asia.

The meeting noted the need for close coordination of all processes, studying the criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, and a common approach to the assessment of sustainable forest management in Europe.

Most European countries have adapted their typological scheme to a common European forest typology and are ready to submit reports on selected forest types in the next report. Russia does not plan to report on the new European forest types to complete the first cycle of the state forest inventory in 2018.

This article has been translated by machine translation.