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The most prominent ones are included in the law on forests, which punishes the accidental causation of forest fires with terms of imprisonment of up to five years and the intentional setting of forest fires with imprisonment of up to 15 years.

(j) Promoting improved forest practices through strengthening sustainable forest management standards

(c) To emphasize an integrated sector wide approach, covering forestry, markets for forest products and trade in forest products.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

(n) Review and, as needed, improve forest related legislation, strengthen forest law enforcement and promote good governance at all levels in order to support sustainable forest management, to create an enabling environment for forest investment and to combat and eradicate illegal practices, in accordance with national legislation, in the forest and other related sectors

(b) Each State is responsible for the sustainable management of its forests and for the enforcement of its forest related laws

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

Approaches for Funding the IAF

(k) Enforcing forest legislation and promoting law enforcement and governance

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

National Human Rights Office (NHRO), Human Rights Institute of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia, the non governmental organisation of persons with disabilities Apeirons and club Māja submitted comments on the draft report elaborated by the working group.

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(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

Enhance forest based economic, social and environmental benefits, including by improving the livelihoods of forest dependent people

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

Forests are deeply entwined with other sectors of society and their management requires coordinated efforts and intersectoral approaches.

Scenes of forest destruction, forest harvesting and forest fragmentation, thereby making that intact tapestry of the canopy unable to function in the marvelous ways that it has when it is not disturbed by humans.

Views on the international arrangement on forests

Forest law and governance for sustainability

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

Implementation of the proposals for action of IPF IFF

(k) Trees outside forests as well as urban and peri urban forests

For example, in 2004, the European Forest Institute hosted two workshops on forestry incentives in Europe and on research in the context of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.

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On the other hand, illegal forest related activities continue to be a major threat to sustainable forest management.

Illegal activity can also put pressure on forest resources.

(e) Forest law enforcement, governance and conflict management

Strengthening the international arrangement on forests

IPF and IFF agreed on over 270 proposals for action for sustainable forest management.

Forest landscape restoration is relevant to a wide range of IPF and IFF proposals for action and the UNF programme of work.

(h) Enhance bilateral, regional and international cooperation to address illicit international trafficking in forest products through the promotion of forest law enforcement and good governance at all levels

The reform of forestry policy is introducing two important innovations (i) preparation of forest management plans and (ii) adoption of forest certification and labelling systems.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

(a) Sustainable management of forest and afforestation reforestation area of forest growing stock and

Some point out, however, that deforestation and forest degradation continue to occur and that an effective legally binding agreement will improve international governance of forests.

Agreed ad ref Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

Article 1 of the Covenant

Forest ownership in the US is diverse it includes extensive private forests, federally managed forests and public forests managed by state and local governments as well as forests owned by native Indian tribes.12

In addition, there should be emphasis on another key area of concern for the sector, besides deforestation and forest degradation, namely, the lack of recognition of indigenous peoples and communities that live in and depend on forests.

The Initial Report of Latvia on the implementation of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereafter the Covenant), binding upon Latvia since 14 July 1992, is prepared in accordance with Article 16 of the Covenant.