ITTO officer gives lecture on sustainable forestry and governance to JICA trainees
2023/01/25
ITTO Projects Manager Tetra Yanuariadi delivered a virtual lecture on sustainable forest management (SFM) and governance in the tropics on 17 November 2022 as part of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s knowledge co-creation programme.
ITTO Projects Manager Tetra Yanuariadi delivered a virtual lecture on sustainable forest management (SFM) and governance in the tropics on 17 November 2022 as part of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s knowledge co-creation programme.
The lecture covered ITTO’s objectives and scope of work; global arrangements on sustainable development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); sustainable forest management in the tropics and its link to SDG 15 (“life on land”); legal and sustainable supply chains for tropical timber and timber products and their relevance to SDG 8 (“decent work and economic growth”) and SDG 12 (“responsible consumption and production”); ITTO’s approach to forest landscape restoration and forest governance, especially in relation to SDG 13 (“climate action”) and SDG 15; and the way forward for SFM in a sustainable world.
The lecture was attended by JICA trainees from Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Georgia, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Turkey and Uganda.