Transforming sustainable development diplomacy: lessons learned from global forest governance.

Since forest issues entered the international agenda in the early 1980s, global forest politics and policies have been developed rapidly. Compared to three decades ago, even though the system of global forest governance has achieved much in the way of new instruments, more money, and a more participatory and active system than anyone anticipated, deforestation and forest degradation continues. Global forest governance is the end product of an array of political, economic, environmental and social dynamics arising at the international, regional, national, and local level...