Joint Call to Action for Forests towards 2030

• The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) has launched the Joint Call to Action for Forests towards 2030.
• They aim to highlight the need for increased action and political commitment to implement forest solutions in pursuit of the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
• The Call to Action for Forests Towards 2030 has four focal areas:
  • Implementation and action;
  • data, science and innovation;
  • finance for forests; and
  • communication and awareness-raising.

ABOUT COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP ON FORESTS

• Collaborative Partnership on Forests is an innovative voluntary interagency partnership of 16 global organisations chaired by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
• Established in 2001 by Economic and Social Council of the UN (ECOSOC)
• Mission– to enhance the contributions of forests to the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Forest Goals and other international commitments.
• The core functions of the CPF are to:
  • support the work of UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) and its member countries;
  • provide scientific and technical advice to the Forum and governing bodies of other CPF members, at their request;
  • enhance coherence, cooperation as well as policy and programme coordination at all levels
  • promote the implementation of the UN Forest Instrument and the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests as well as the contribution of forests and trees to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other major forest-related agreements.