Governing forest landscapes: Lessons learnt from ten years of experience and the way forward post-2015
3.-6.2.2015, Interlaken, Switzerland
Hosts: Switzerland together with Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico and Ukraine
Organisers & partner organisations: Federal Office for the Environment Switzerland (FOEN), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern University of Applied Sciences School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL), HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Programme on Forests (PROFOR)
Co-sponsors: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Germany (BMZ), Norwegian Ministry for Agriculture and Food, Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Federal Office for the Environment Switzerland (FOEN), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Participants: 140 participants from 50 countries
Background
Switzerland, jointly with Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico and the Ukraine, had the pleasure of hosting and organizing the concluding country-led initiative (CLI) in support of UNFF11 on the topic of forest governance in changing landscapes.
The global CLI ‘Interlaken+10’ in February 2015 taped on the preceding workshops and on the experience gained and lessons learnt across the globe in the light of recent developments and trends. It identified recommendations for the way forward to include meaningfully governance issues in a post-2015 international arrangement on forests.
Workshop objectives
- Take stock of the experience gained since 2004 and lessons learnt on governance and decentralisation as they relate to forest management and conservation;
- Reflect on developments over the past ten years related to governance of forest landscape taking into account recent developments and trends globally;
- Identify key issues that need to be addressed in a global forestry context;
- Develop proposals and recommendations on how to foster good governance of forest landscapes to the UNFF and as part of the post-2015 agenda.
At the time of planning the workshop, issues relating to governance were becoming an important element of the emerging post-2015 frameworks such as the SDGs and the deliberation of a new global climate agreement under the UNFCCC. This CLI thus provided an opportunity to analyse and anchor key aspects of forest governance in wider post-2015 development frameworks.
Report to the UN
Report to the UN Secretary General: English | Spanish | French | Russian | Arabic | Chinese
Workshop documentation
Full workshop documentation (16 MB)
Key presentation by Switzerland, on the CLIs on forest governance, their impact and the way forward.
Field trips
- Field trip 1: Lauterbrunnen – Murren: A walk in the snow with glimpses at the landscape
- Field trip 2: Boltigen: Governance in the landscape of Simmental: community forests and alpine pastures
- Field trip 3: Emmental: Private forests in a mosaic landscape