Community-based climate resilient forests: Pathways to green economy, improved ecosystem and poverty reduction
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) or Rio+20aims - to secure renewed political commitment to sustainabledevelopment, to see how much progress has been made towardsagreed goals; and look at the new and emerging challenges. Theconference will be focusing on two speci c themes: povertyeradication and sustainable development - in the context of a greeneconomy and institutional framework for sustainable development.Nepal is leading on community-based forest management andwitnessing substantial post-con ict political, institutional, economicand social transformations.
The forestry sector is facing a number ofunfolding challenges and opportunities resulting from changeswithin and outside the sector particularly due to green economy,climate change, carbon business and payments for environmentalservices.The forestry sector’s goal is to ensure that the Rio+20 outcomesand decisions rmly re ect the sustainable forest managementagenda, and it includes a framework for action on forestry andgreen enterprises together with related mandates for forestrysector, including inclusive economic growth through REDD+payment mechanisms, climate change adaptation andmitigation to signi cantly increase the forestry sector'scontribution in the national economy.
