Expert Meeting on Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management
19 Expert Group Meeting on Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management UNECE / FAO, the UN held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 20-22 February 2013
The meeting was attended by 27 experts of the working group, the Secretariat of the "Europe's forests", representatives of international organizations, including ECE, FAO, the European Council, etc.
The meeting discussed the following issues:
- Review of the preparation to the global Forest Resources Assessment of FAO - 2015
- Presentation of the draft questionnaire of the "State of Europe's forests-2015"
- Work in groups:
- productive functions of forests and woods, possible to operate
- socio-economic indicators
- biodiversity and protection functions
- forest resources, carbon, forest health and forest damage
- Discussion of the report sub-
- The draft plan of the working group for 2013-2014.
- Discussion of the new mandate of the working group at 2014-2017.
- The initiative of the Timber UN / ECE to report to the new information system.
The staff of timber Roman Michalak presented the preparations for the Global Forest Resources Assessment of FAO. The working group discussed the questionnaire FRA 2015 and FRA training timeline. The Secretariat recalled that the Russian Federation has agreed to provide a pilot report by the end of March. Pilot report will be used for training of national correspondents in other countries at a meeting in Chiang Maya, Thailand, 6-10 May 2013. Deadline for submission of pre-installed versions of the reports by the end of 2013. In 2014, the checks will be national reports and to prepare a general report. FAO has developed an online version of the presentation of data to the database. National correspondents are invited to consider the possibility of work in this version of the information database. Publication and presentation of a general report on the FRA-2015 is planned for early 2015.
Team Leader Tony Karhanen presented a draft questionnaire for the preparation of the report "Europe's forests-2015." Most of the items of the questionnaire on quantitative criteria and indices coincides with the questionnaire FAO. On quality criteria and indicators developed an additional questionnaire. The time line of the report coincides with the graph FRA-2015.
Work in groups was a detailed discussion of the criteria and indicators of both questionnaires. Filipchuk AN participated in the evaluation of the subgroup of the productive functions of forests and forest potential for exploitation. A list of key technical issues include: how to account for Christmas trees, how to account for the same area of forest damage caused by various species of insects and pests, which last year accounting indicator that the report in 2015, and how to visualize the data on income and expenditure on forest economy, etc. In addition considered the presentation of some indicators: the relative values in% on 1 hectare, per capita, etc. Were not ignored questions rationale of threshold values for a number of indicators. Each sub-group prepared a report on the work.
Talk reports subgroups held in plenary. On the basis of reports prepared by the general report and recommendations of the meeting. Decided to finalize the questionnaire report European forests during March with the comments and suggestions of the working group. Revised version will be submitted by e-mail.
The draft plan of the working group for 2013-2014. includes completion of the questionnaire of the report "Europe's forests 2015" newsletter, organizing a group of authors, a guide to writing texts sections, selection and training of the reviewers of the draft report. At the end of 2013 it is planned to hold the next meeting of the working group.
The meeting was a draft of the new mandate of the working group for 2014-2017. Due to lack of time for discussion, members of the working group to consider the proposed project and provide comments and suggestions within two weeks.
Secretariat ECE Timber / UN presented an initiative to provide information to the new information system. All members of the working group proposed to extend the initiative and take part in the preparation of the first information of the collection, which will be posted on the UN / ECE. Materials in the first number is 15 March.
This article has been translated by machine translation.
