106 STATE OF THE WORLD'S FORESTS 2001 support to enable the implementation of ECoSOC to initiate. before the councils sustainable forest management, as substantive session in July 2000, informal recommended under the ipf and iFF consultations on where to place UNFF within the ocesses UN system. These consultations commenced in IFF also reached a consensus on the proposed early June and continued through the ECOSOC working modalities for UNFF, stating that it session, but without a conclusion being reached should be open to all states"and"would on the location of unff Other unresolved issues initially meet annually.. UNFF would have a rship and voting rights. In its high-level ministerial segment, for two to three resumed session in October 2000, ECOSOC days, as required. The high-level segment could created an intemational arrangement on forests include a one-day policy dialogue with the heads inchuding UNFF which was established as a of organizations participating in the collaborative subsidiary body of ECOSOC. At the partnership..UNFF would work on the basis of organizational meeting of UNFF, held in February a multi-year programme of work, drawing on the 2001, it was decided, among other things, to base elements reflected in the rio Declaration, the the unff Secretariat in New York. The cpf was Forest Principles, Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 and established in April 2001. UNFF's first substantive the IPF/IFF proposals for action. At its first session was held in june 2001 meeting on Environment and Development, UNFF will adopt its multi-year programme of work and develop a plan of action. which INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS would address financial provision AND AGREEMENTS RELATED IFF stated that the Collaborative Partnership TO FORESTS on Forests( CPF)-the official name for the Convention on Biological Diversity partnership referred to in (b)above-"could The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties build on a high-level, informal group, such as COP-5)to the Conference on Biological Diversity, the Inter-Agency Task Force on Forests [TFF], which was held in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2000 which would receive guidance from UNFF highlighted the need to expand the focus of the facilitate and promote coordinated and Conventions programme of work in forest cooperative action, including joint programming ogical diversity from research to action- and submissions of coordinated proposals to the oriented activities. COP-5 called on Parties respective governing bodies; and facilitate donor governments and organizations to take practical coordination". It said that a compact secretariat actions to do this within the scope of the existing should be established to service unff work programme. Forest biological diversity will constituted in accordance with established rules be the major thematic focus of the seventh and procedures of the United Nations and meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, strengthened through staff from secretariats of Technical and Technological Advice(SBSTTA-7)in international and regional organizations, ovember 2001, for which a substantive report institutions and instruments analysing the status, trends and options for action At its eighth session in April-May 2000, the will be prepared. The conclusions will be Commission on Sustainable Development(CSD) discussed at COP-6, scheduled for April 2002. The endorsed IFF's conclusions and proposals for aim will be to propose an action-based, integrated action. csd invited ecosoc and the un and holistic approach to the conservation and General Assembly, as appropriate, to take action sustainable use of forest biological diversity. on the proposed terms of reference for an international arrangement on forests, as recommended by IFE. It invited the President of Adopted at COP-4 in May 1998106 STATE OF THE WORLD’S FORESTS 2001 support to enable the implementation of sustainable forest management, as recommended under the IPF and IFF processes.” IFF also reached a consensus on the proposed working modalities for UNFF, stating that it “should be open to all states” and “would initially meet annually.... UNFF would have a high-level ministerial segment, for two to three days, as required. The high-level segment could include a one-day policy dialogue with the heads of organizations participating in the collaborative partnership.... UNFF would work on the basis of a multi-year programme of work, drawing on the elements reflected in the Rio Declaration, the Forest Principles, Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 and the IPF/IFF proposals for action. At its first meeting on Environment and Development, UNFF will adopt its multi-year programme of work and develop a plan of action ... which would address financial provisions.” IFF stated that the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) – the official name for the partnership referred to in (b) above – “could build on a high-level, informal group, such as the Inter-Agency Task Force on Forests [ITFF], which would receive guidance from UNFF; facilitate and promote coordinated and cooperative action, including joint programming and submissions of coordinated proposals to the respective governing bodies; and facilitate donor coordination”. It said that a compact secretariat should be established to service UNFF, “constituted in accordance with established rules and procedures of the United Nations and strengthened through staff from secretariats of international and regional organizations, institutions and instruments”. At its eighth session in April-May 2000, the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) endorsed IFF’s conclusions and proposals for action. CSD invited ECOSOC and the UN General Assembly, as appropriate, to take action on the proposed terms of reference for an international arrangement on forests, as recommended by IFF. It invited the President of ECOSOC to initiate, before the Council’s substantive session in July 2000, informal consultations on where to place UNFF within the UN system. These consultations commenced in early June and continued through the ECOSOC session, but without a conclusion being reached on the location of UNFF. Other unresolved issues regarded membership and voting rights. In its resumed session in October 2000, ECOSOC created an international arrangement on forests, including UNFF, which was established as a subsidiary body of ECOSOC. At the organizational meeting of UNFF, held in February 2001, it was decided, among other things, to base the UNFF Secretariat in New York. The CPF was established in April 2001. UNFF’s first substantive session was held in June 2001. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATED TO FORESTS Convention on Biological Diversity The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the Conference on Biological Diversity, which was held in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2000, highlighted the need to expand the focus of the Convention’s programme of work in forest biological diversity5 from research to action￾oriented activities. COP-5 called on Parties, governments and organizations to take practical actions to do this within the scope of the existing work programme. Forest biological diversity will be the major thematic focus of the seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-7) in November 2001, for which a substantive report analysing the status, trends and options for action will be prepared. The conclusions will be discussed at COP-6, scheduled for April 2002. The aim will be to propose an action-based, integrated and holistic approach to the conservation and sustainable use of forest biological diversity. 5 Adopted at COP-4 in May 1998