Traduction de «Forestry Forum for Developing Countries » (Anglais → Français) :

The EU and its Member States will produce a joint synthesis report on the Consensus on Development including the impact of their actions in support of the 2030 Agenda in developing countries, as a contribution to EU reporting to the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF), when meeting at Head-of-State level every four years.

H. whereas it is important, in the run-up to the fourth Forum, to remind donor countries of their commitment to devote 0.7% of their GNP/GNI to development aid by 2015, to include a significant gender equality component in all policies and practices in the context of their relations with developing countries, to define ODA more rigorously and to uphold the principles laid down in the AAA, which remain valid, and whereas there is a need to move beyond ODA in order to build ...[+++] partnerships aimed at supporting the emergence of a vision of development that is owned and driven by the countries themselves;

(14b) If emissions and removals related to land use, land use change and forestry are included in the future international agreement, a Commission proposal on including these emissions and removals in this Decision could address the conditions for the use of credits from sustainable, verifiable and permanent afforestation and reforestation projects certified by the CDM Executive Board, forestry activities in developing countries ...[+++] that are foreseen in an agreement that has been concluded in accordance with Article 11a(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC or any sustainable, verifiable and permanent forestry projects in developing countries in compliance with the international agreement referred to in Article 6(1), recognising that all tCERs or lCERs with units valid under the Kyoto Protocol or the international agreement have to be replaced and that the Member State should also replace those tCERs or lCERs before their expiry on a continuing basis.

Ahead of the Poznań Conference there are four key issues or ‘hot topics’: i) sectoral approaches; ii) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF); iii) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD); and iv) financing and development.

10. Considers globalisation a key element in promoting competitiveness and growth within the EU and in developing countries; underlines the importance of the multilateral approach to trade policy, especially for the developing and least-developed countries, whose interests are best served in a multilateral framework, and the multilateral governance needed to ensure a free and fair trade system worldwide; therefore supports the WTO as the principal forum for the management ...[+++]of globalisation, through trade opening and the strengthening of multilateral rules, and the pursuit of sustainable development;

These are areas where the activities of the European Community have a long tradition and are well established and where the UN has a specific mandate, important capabilities and potential (skills, know-how, information and data systems) and a high degree of credibility - in particular with developing countries -as a forum for policy discussions and, in a number of areas, as a provider of technical assistance.