Montral Process Criteria

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Montréal Process Criteria Indicators
forSustainable Forest Management

• Don WijewardanaMontréal Process Liaison
  OfficeNovember 5-8, 2001

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Agenda

• Membership
• Milestones / Reporting Schedule
• Important Documents
• 2003 Report
• Overview Report
• Country Reports
• MP Workshop of Experts
• Issues/Constraints
• Possible Solutions/Good Things
• Plans for Future
• CI Mutual Recognition

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Membership

• 12 member countries
• Variation in characteristics and condition
  gt90 of temperate and boreal forests
• Working group (WG) technical advisory committee
  (TAC) agree on CI for the conservation
  sustainable management of temperate boreal
  forests forest agencies foreign affairs TAC
  provides technical advice / studies
• Ability to obtain data/information

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Reporting Schedule / Milestones

• CSCE, Montréal, September 1993
• Working Group formed, Geneva, June 1994
• Santiago Declaration, Santiago, February 1995
• First Approximation Report, October 1997
  (institutional capacity)
• Montréal Process Year 2000 Progress Report,
  December 2000 (institutional progress)
• First Montréal Process Forest Report, 2003

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Important Documents

• Santiago Declaration CI statement of
  political commitment
• Brochure Web pages communication
• First Approximation Report institutional
  capacity
• Technical Notes coordination capacity-building

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2003 Report

• Overview report (10-16 pages)
• Executive Summary, Introduction, Background,
  Highlights on trends, Conclusions and next steps
• Country reports (50-65 pages)
• Executive Summary, Introduction, Background,
  Trends in National Indicators of SFM, Conclusions
  and next steps

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2003 ReportOverview Report

• Objective Present progress of Montréal Process
  Working Group
• Summarize process
• Illustrate kind of data in country reports
• Executive Summary of country reports
• Links to country reports

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2003 ReportCountry Reports

• Objective Present country data relative to
  criteria and indicators
• Document reasons to report on progress toward SFM
  and use of internationally agreed CI
• Expression of national commitment to sustainable
  development (SD)
• Domestic purpose and use of report
• Summarize country process
• Best quality data on CI for assessing progress
  toward sustainable management of forests

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MP Workshop of ExpertsPortland, Oregon, 08/01

• Opportunity for new country technical experts to
  meet each other share ideas
• Share information on collection reporting on
  CI
• How focus on techniques of data collection
  reporting for 1 indicator / criterion
• Document and share with others

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MP Workshop of ExpertsOutcomes

• Exchange of experiences in monitoring reporting
• Expanded network of people working on National
  Reports
• Augmented information available in Technical
  Notes TAC meeting notes on how to address CI
• including guidance on common reporting format for
  7 highlight indicators for 2003 Overview Report

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MP Workshop of ExpertsOutcomes (cont.)

• Increased technical personnel capacity of
  countries to work on reports
• Provided additional information to worldwide CI
  community

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Issues/Constraints

• Time to develop data, e.g., 10 years
• Scientific protocols, e.g., dont know best way
  to obtain data
• Continuing institutional commitment, e.g.,
  ongoing questions about country involvement
• Ongoing lack of time/money

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Elements of Solution

• Continuing commitment of staff people to SFM and
  making process work
• Continuing sharing of information and techniques
• Meeting self-imposed targets for progress

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Plans for Future

• 13th meeting of Working Group (Bariloche)
  November 26-30, 2001 will discuss 2003 reports
• Participate in International CI Conference
  (Costa Rica FAO) First quarter 2002
• Draft Country Reports due to Liaison Office
  April 2002
• 14th meeting of Working Group? 2002
• Final Country Reports April 2003
• Participate in World Forestry Congress and table
  report (Québec City) September 2003

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Plans for Future (cont.)

• Continue cooperation with UNFF
• Continue cooperation with other CI initiatives
• Investigate potential for mutual recognition
  between CI processes

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CI Mutual Recognition

• ITTO
• C1 Enabling Conditions for SFM
• C2 Forest Resource Security
• C3 Forest Ecosystem Health Condition
• C4 Flow of Forest Products
• C5 Biological Diversity
• C6 Soil Water
• C7 Economic, Social Cultural Aspects
• Montreal Process
• C7 Legal, Institutional Economic Framework
  for Forest Conservation Sustainable Management
• C3 Maintenance of Forest Ecosystem Health
  Vitality
• C2 Maintenance of Productive Capacity Of Forest
  Ecosystems
• C1 Conservation of Biological Diversity
• C4 Conservation Maintenance of Soil Water
  Resources
• C6 Maintenance Enhancement of Long-Term
  Multiple Socio-Economic Benefits to Meet the
  Needs of Societies
• C5 Maintenance of Forest Contribution to Global
  Carbon Cycles

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CI Mutual Recognition

• ITTO
• C1 Enabling Conditions for SFM
• C2 Forest Resource Security
• C3 Forest Ecosystem Health Condition
• C4 Flow of Forest Products
• C5 Biological Diversity
• C6 Soil Water
• C7 Economic, Social Cultural Aspects

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CI Mutual Recognition

• Montreal Process
• C7 Legal, Institutional Economic Framework
  for Forest Conservation Sustainable Management
• C3 Maintenance of Forest Ecosystem Health
  Vitality
• C2 Maintenance of Productive Capacity Of Forest
  Ecosystems
• C1 Conservation of Biological Diversity
• C4 Conservation Maintenance of Soil Water
  Resources
• C6 Maintenance Enhancement of Long-Term
  Multiple Socio-Economic Benefits to Meet the
  Needs of Societies
• C5 Maintenance of Forest Contribution to Global
  Carbon Cycles