 Hello. Welcome everyone to this site event co-organized by Ayufro and C4 that is entitled Research for a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forest and Trees. My name is Vincent Gitz and I'm with C4, the Director for Programs and Platforms. And to start this session, I will call Robert Nasi, Director General of C4 and Managing Director of C4 aircraft to say welcome address. Robert, à ton tour. Merci Vincent. Good evening everybody, both the people that are in the room and managed to find the room that is probably they wanted to have another room will be outside the building and for the people online. And it's a great pleasure for me to open this new era and this event because I was also the one opening the CRP on Forest Trees and Agroforestry in 2011. And I was the first director of the CRP from 2011 and 2016. And I can tell you that the beginning were quite difficult, trying to have a set of seven to eight organization 280 scientists working in different things, working together and programming together. And so that remember someone said that's how to manage these sort of things you know, you should know how to work barefoot on broken glass. But thankfully it worked and even more pleased that after a while we are Vincent to be the director of the second phase of the CRP. And then that's where I think took their flight. So it was a big success. And thanks also with all the partners and all the friends we have. And everybody says that all the good things have to have an end. And we did disagree. Because when we were informed that the FTA will close in 2021, we said, well, we don't want the partnership to close the partnership is much more important, much bigger, much more interesting than the CGR program itself. And so we started the discussion almost a year ago in terms of, okay, how can we continue this partnership, expand it even beyond what we had during the FTA phase. And then we had discussion with all the partners, all of you that are in the room and online. And to develop what I expect to be probably one of the largest platform in terms of mostly tropical forest, but I hope our EFI colleagues will join us and we'll also have any for the presence of all the forest. So this is the time to announce that we have this new forest trees and agroforestry partnership. And of course, the the World Forestry Congress seems to be the privileged moment to take stock of the last event and the new demands towards sector. And that's what I express in the state of the world forest and so forth that was launched here also. And we expect our new partnership to be a demand driven. And we crafted this side event together with our colleagues from ISRO to question what are the important demands towards forest trees with what what what do you expect from the whole forest and tree sector to contribute for sustainable development, but also to fight against climate crisis to look about the biodiversity crisis and all the the problem that we are facing, one of the big one being, okay, are we going to move from the fossil fuel-based economy to the biological bio-based economy if we want to effectively reduce greenhouse gases emissions. So we need to act gently and as I said in a couple of presentations, I think the time of commitments, the time of negotiation is past. We are in 2022, May 2022 that that leave us a bit less than eight years to achieve the 2030 targets and goals. So and I don't want to be pessimistic, but if we continue running at this pace, we are not going to achieve this one like we did on the fourth one. So we need to act gently. And for that also, we need to have proper data. We need to have empirical evidence and things that we want to do, because everybody tells you there is billions of dollars floating around on forest or something like that. And then you say okay, and what do you want to do with this billion of dollars and based on what and how do you going to do that. So I will stop here. I think it's very important and I hope that in 10 years from now, we will be proud and say okay, I was there when they launched the FTA partnership. Thank you very much. Back to you Vincent. Merci. Thank you. Thank you, Robert. And as you said, this partnership is pretty much demand driven. So this is also why one of the reason we've asked Mrs. Juliette Biao Kudenukpo, who is the Director of the UN Forum on Forest Secretariat, to give us some welcome address to express the demands that are impinging our sector. So I think Fabio, it is a video because I think Juliette Biao was busy to prepare UNFF next week and couldn't travel to Seoul. Distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, I would like to begin by thanking SIFO and IUFRO for their kind invitation to join today's event. Forests provide multiple goods and services which benefit people in many ways, economically, materially, health-wise and socially. The importance of forests for the well-being of people and the planet is undeniable. Yet despite the vital importance we keep losing forests, the world has lost 178 million acres, 440 million acres of forests since 1990, which is an area above the size of Libya. Currently, there are many forests related international commitment and initiatives which aim to address deforestation. These include the Bond Challenge, the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on the UNF Triple C, the UN Strategic Plan for Forests and its Global Forest Goals, the ongoing UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and most recently, the Glass Grove Declaration on Forests and Land Use. What we need is stronger cooperation and coordination among various agencies outside and within the UN system to achieve all these goals and targets and ultimately secure sustainable forest management. UNFF brings together both policy and technical expertise and it is well placed to be custodian in this work. The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030 forged by the UNFF and adopted by GA in 2017 serves as an excellent framework for the forest base work of the United Nations system and for fostering partnerships and enhance coherence, collaboration and synergies among various bodies and partners on forest. The implementation of sustainable forest management depends on the contribution of all relevant stakeholders including governments and forest owners, indigenous peoples, local communities, local authorities, the private sector including small, medium and large forest based enterprises, non-governmental organizations, women, children and youth. It also requires the mobilization of scientific community, scientific input and the best available scientific and traditional forest related knowledge. Please allow me to highlight a few areas of work where the scientific input are currently needed. Forests are vital to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Achievement of the SDGs. However, achieving all the SDGs currently poses a major challenge. Let me provide you one example. Forests and sustainable forest management are at the center of the SDG-15 whereas SDG-2 seeks to end hunger, achieve food security and nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Currently, much of the agricultural expansion related to achieving global food security is at the expense of forest. A business as usual approach to food production will continue to cause mass deforestation. This will be damaging for biodiversity, impacting forest dwelling communities who depend on forests for the direct provision of food. We do need more scientific research on forest trees and agroforestry models to address these issues with minimal tradeoff. Another area where we still need a strong scientific involvement is establishing the true and full value of forest. As of today, the full contribution of forest to ecosystems, society and sustainable development remains drastically underestimated owing to a lack of methodologies and socioeconomic data. Many benefits and services provided by forests are currently not measured or valued in quantifiable terms. Once the real value of forest is established, it will no longer be profitable to the forest owner to convert and use forest land for other uses such as large-scale production of agricultural commodities and or pasture. Valuing forest fully is one of the main paths to stop deforestation and to ensure that forest can be utilized as a nature-based solution to combat climate change, protecting biodiversity and preventing future pandemics. In terms of solution to valuing forests, government, academia, NGOs, private sector and consumers have major role to play. The role of scientific communities particularly important to provide a solid evidence-based with systematic data related to valuing all the socioeconomic benefits provided by forests. Forests are at the heart of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The decade runs from 2021 through 2030 which is also the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. The decade is our chance to turn the tide on deforestation and forest degradation. However, experience shows that restoring forests and other degraded ecosystems is not an easy task. As ecosystems are in a constant state of fruits and walking on one ecosystem may have adverse impact on the other. Ecosystems also change as climate changes and new uncertainties arise. Returning to a former state of an ecosystem may not bring the best results due to new and different environment and conditions and may lead to hotter temperatures, frequent extreme weather events and or shifting rainfall. There might be also need for different species or composition of species. Scientific understanding of how to restore and adapt ecosystems is still evolving. However, this knowledge is essential to us halting deforestation and forest degradation. Lastly, as the main drivers of deforestation lie beyond forest sector, finding a solution is a complex endeavor. Scientific community can play an important role in helping policy-making officials to find cross-sectoral policies and solutions to address this challenge through sound scientific data and information. In short, there is still much to be done in research on the role of forest trees and agroforestry in sustainable development, food, security and addressing climate change. The various events organized during the World Forestry Congress provide excellent opportunities for discussion on forest and forest related issues and help to position forest and forestry as an integral part of sustainable development at all levels. They are particularly beneficial to disseminate the key result of research not only among the global forest community but also strive to reach out to the practitioners at the national and local levels. In this respect, I would like to thank SIFO and IUFRO as the important science-based organizations for convening this event. I thank you. Okay, so a virtual thank you to Mrs. Biao with a recorded statement from from New York. And now, without further ado, I will give the faster floor to Alexander Berg, the Executive Director of IUFRO. And the idea now, and Alexander will introduce the speakers, is that we have presentations and perspectives from all the partners that are now constructing this new partnership together. Some are online and some will intervene from the floor. Yeah, so Alexander, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, Meson. And thank you in general to SIFO for the kind invitation to IUFRO to partner with you in organizing and convening this side event. A very good evening to everyone here, physically present in the room, which was indeed not very easy to find. And of course, a very warm welcome also to the audience joining online. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I realized that for some of you it's really the middle of the night, so we really would like to applaud you for joining the event at such a this time. As Meson already mentioned, we now want to hear from experts representing FTA partner organizations about what they consider to be the new demands on forest and trees and more specifically what the role of research and development should be in addressing those needs. More specifically, we want really to investigate the question, what is needed from research and development to support the roles of forest and trees in achieving the various SDGs. And some of them have already mentioned in mentioned by the UNIFF Director General. My name is Alexander Buch and I'm the IUFRO Executive Director. I will introduce the panelists as they are going to take the floor. And it's my great pleasure to introduce as our first panelist Dr. John Verrotta, who is the president of IUFRO and John in his day job is also the national program leader for international science issues at the United States Forest Service Research and Development branch. John, could I ask you to join the panel? Thank you very much Alexander for the kind introduction. It's a pleasure to be participating in this event, this historic event. It will be talking about 10 years from now that we were here. Actually, what I have to say resonates very, very much with what Madame Biao has just said. My thoughts on this whole issue are very aligned, very closely with her. She has a lot of extremely good insight into what is needed. So yeah, I've been asked to say a little bit about what I see as the frontiers in forest science that can contribute to the goals of the FTA. And there are basically two messages that I'd like to convey. One is the need to make better use of what we already know. And this comes both from western science that's evolved over the last 200 years, but also from traditional knowledge, which has evolved in countless indigenous and local communities worldwide over millennia, if not longer. The second, and then after that, I'd like to, the second area that I think is like to cover is actually new knowledge that needs to be generated to deal with changing with changing circumstances, specifically climate change and the needs of the needs to enhance rural economies, which I think is a fundamental objective of the FTA. So with respect to the, to making use of what we already know, that's your frontier. And then that frontier is overcoming our fear of learning from the past and as a consequence, our tendency to reinvent the wheel over and over again. As I just mentioned, there's a very strong foundation in the biophysical sciences related to forest that's evolved over the last 200 years, related to silver culture, genetics, wood science, you know, all fields of forest science that need to be used. Yeah, I mean, and just as an illustration of what I'm talking about, about making better use of what we already know, and this is I think true in most of the fields that we're talking about, in the area of, with respect to say forest landscape restoration and restoration in general, there's an astonishing, there seems to be an astonishing ignorance of the body of knowledge that exists on the silver culture of countless numbers of species of trees that can be found in some old standard reference books, but also buried in research files of organizations and universities worldwide in India, for example. It's an area of the world that I'm quite familiar with. There's some standard references that deal with hundreds and a huge proportion of the total number of tree species that have been used over the years in India. But when you look at the restoration programs, only a very small fraction of those species are being used. And this is really tragic because it cuts off the number of options that people are using. It's not making use of all the information related to the environmental tolerances of trees, their silver culture, their propagation techniques, and all the way down to their utilization. And this is, and I don't want to pick on India because the same could be said of so many other countries in the world. So that's just one example of research in biophysical sciences. But as I said, it applies I think to many other areas, in terms of ecology, forest health, cultivation and utilization of non-timber forest products, forest hydrology. We know a lot already and we should be using it. Research in the social sciences, although it's much newer, probably I would say decades old versus a couple of centuries. Here too, we possess an ever-growing body of knowledge on the dynamics of the critical dimensions of human interactions with forests, as well as methodologies for evaluating them. Forest sciences in these past decades has been enriched by the contributions of sociology, economics, and then many other fields that have decided to join us in our efforts to better understand forests and interactions with human society. And it's from the social sciences we have the expertise and the development of methodologies used to evaluate the full values of forest, which is indeed, I think, a very necessary objective. Now, the role of the scientific committee in making use of all of this vast store of knowledge that's underutilized at present, I think it's really our responsibility as scientists to dig out this information, synthesize it, and communicate it to the various users who need it at this point. People in other sectors, people working in non-governmental organizations with all, basically with all of the potential uses of information. Now, when it comes to traditional knowledge, we hear a lot of mention of it. We know it's a vast underutilized resource, but of course, it's something that needs to be applied in what needs to be developed, not developed, but used in conjunctions many times with Western science, and primarily in the areas where this traditional knowledge has been developed and with those communities. Many strengths of traditional knowledge, it's usually much more detailed in its understanding of local environments and local forest dynamics. It's based on generations of experience, experimentation, and innovation. It's holistic in its outlook, which the boundaries between the ecosystem and social systems, in any case, they just don't exist. It's a very full knowledge system, which of course is exactly what the kind of thinking that we need to be adopting. There, again, is this vast pool of judicial knowledge that's needed, that needs to be respected and utilized as appropriate in our efforts. Then there's that second broad category of research that's needed to adapt to changing circumstances and changing realities, really. The first is, of course, climate change. Although we do possess an enormous amount of knowledge already, our knowledge is being tested as environmental conditions change very quickly. I think genetics is one field where a lot of work is needed in this area, genetic manipulation for increased drought tolerance of trees for use in assisted migration efforts and so on. Forest ecology, the boundaries are being tested by climate change. There's much to be gained through further research to better predict the impacts of climate change in terms of forest species, both plants and animals, how assemblages are changing and what the future holds for forest as a result of climate change. Again, there are many other examples that I could go into, but I think I don't want to take up the whole time that other people need to speak. So I'll just close there and hope provided a couple of key messages. Again, the need to make better use of what we already know and secondly, to focus our new research efforts on what is needed to adapt to changing economic and environmental conditions. So with that, I'll close. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Paratha John, for this very important reminder that actually a lot is known already in the sciences, especially in the biophysical sciences, but there's also an evolving body of knowledge in the social sciences as you pointed out and thank you also for reminding us of the need to use different sources of knowledge, including traditional forest knowledge. I know that this is a topic that is also very close to your heart, so a very important reminder. John, if I could ask you to have a seat at the podium later on for the interactive panel discussion. Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, next I would like to invite Mr. Sumpi Jin to actually share his perspective on the new demands on forestry. Mr. Jin is the Vice Executive Director of the Asia Forest Corporation Organization and is such a representative organization that has a vast experience in the implementation of the topics that we are discussing today. Mr. Jin, the floor is yours. Thank you. Just five minutes for me. Very important event for Apoco, Apoco Minister meeting just finished, so I could join this meeting. First of all, on behalf of Apoco, I would like to say thank you for inviting me. As an intergovernmental organization, Apoco also is interested in this partnership. We have been facing the climate change as a global challenge, which forest sector is one of the essential parts to achieve the climate goal of UNFCCC. The increasing demand on forest to address climate change was confirmed with the Glasgow leaders' declaration on forest land use in 2021. Since 2020, COVID-19 has become another global change we face in 2021. Through a thematic dialogue on the potential of forest to recover from the COVID-19 with the six Apoco member countries, we confirmed that national demands on forest to build back better and greener are increasing. Another emerging demand on forest is from the private sector as ESG management became a trend for corporate opportunity for resource mobilization in forest sector are emerging. With the vision of a greener Asia with resilient forest landscape and communities, Apoco has been implementing project activities in the member countries aligned with our strategic plan 2019 to 2023. In initiating customized restoration, supporting R&D in climate change adaptation, introducing systemic management on forest digesters, local livelihood improvement, and enhancing institutional capabilities. As mandated on the article line of the Apoco agreement and in order to achieve the vision of Apoco, the regional forestry cooperation should provide policy decision support for forest policy formulation and implementation, complex development for professional competencies and mobilizations of resources. Thus, we would like to address the role of research on forestry and agroforestry is to provide scientific evidence to support decision-making of police makers and investors to capture all emerging demands and opportunities to unleash full potential for sustainable development. Apoco will continue to promote and undertake realistic and action-oriented forest cooperation programs to achieve its mission. However, to address the global demand, we need a global approach and research cooperation to share knowledge and learn from each other. We would like to invite research partners to develop and implement joint projects for forestry and agroforestry in Asia to promote scientific evidence-based advocacy, communication, and engagement for sustainable development. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Jin. Thank you, Hamnida, for this very important contribution for highlighting both some of the new emerging challenges and trends such as the COVID and also the ESG management and the role of the private sector more generally, but also thank you for reminding us of this lead to provide a sound evidence base for decision-making on current and emerging issues that is very much appreciated. As our next panelist, I would like to invite Ms. Arlene, Dr. Arlene Lopez-Sampson to actually share with us her perspective on the topic. Dr. Lopez-Sampson is a principal researcher at Cartier, the Tropical Research and Higher Education Center, and Dr. Lopez-Sampson very understandably will join us virtually. So, hello, Dr. Sampson. I hope you can hear us and see us. I have a video for Dr. Arlene Sampson, even though she is with us, so I don't know if she wants to say two words before we launch the video, or she's happy with me launching the video. Yes, please, Fabio, just launch the video. Okay, thank you very much, Arlene. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. My name is Arlene Lopez from Cartier, and it's an honor for me to be joining this discussion about trees and agroforestry, research for a better future. Trees and agroforestry are important for livelihoods. In this example, we can see how the shake canopy of a cocoa agroforestry system can significantly contribute to the provision of vitamins, proteins and carbs, and it also shows the contribution a family can gain from the shake canopy of a cocoa agroforestry system. And this contribution, it depends on the design of the agroforestry system, and we can see that neither two complers or two simple cocoa agroforestry system in terms of botanical composition, plant density, and vertical and horizontal spatial complexity is needed. Agroforestry and trees are also important for the environment and production. In this example, we can see the contribution of cocoa agroforestry system in another arrangement to support biodiversity, and also the capacity of some agroforestry to storage carbon. And we have the contribution of trees to soil macrofauna that is important to sustain crops production. Trees and agroforestry, however, are missing from national frameworks. For example, they are not included in laws, institution or policies. They are not even included in national accounting or reporting systems. And also we don't found trees or agroforestry topics in the education systems or curricula. And also we don't found these topics on extension program. These issues can lead to have underdeveloped tree-based value change, and also farmers don't see trees as a problem, leading to suboptimal agroforestry designs in our countries. So we believe that with this platform, we can tackle these issues and fully realize the potential of agroforestry and trees in our countries. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you very much. Gracias Dr. Lopez Samson for highlighting these issues. The lack of forest values being accounted for has also been mentioned earlier on in the statement by the director of the UN Forum on Forests. So I think that point resonates a lot. And I'm personally very thankful to you for also having raised the importance of raising the profile of agroforestry in curricula around the globe. This also actually corresponds with the finding of a recent Global Forest Education project that my own organization has been involved in. So a very pertinent point. Thanks a lot. As a last panelist, last but certainly not least, we do have Dr. Pablo Pacheco, who is the Global Forest Lead Scientist at WWF. Dr. Pacheco has also provided a recorded video message, and I would ask Fabio to now show the message, the video. Thank you. I'm Pablo Pacheco, Global Forest Lead Scientist at WWF. Thanks for the invitation to offer some remarks about the new forest trees and agroforestry partnership launched today. And we at WWF are in the process of coming on board. First, I would like to acknowledge the leadership of the forest trees and agroforestry program and their member organizations. For embracing and carrying forward the vision to build this new partnership, aim at supporting the transformational change that our world needs. This through a perspective that highlights the options and opportunity that forest trees and agroforestry offer to achieve sustainable development while contributing to a stabilized climate and safeguard biodiversity and nature, as well as the contributions of nature to people. As the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity laws, and social inequality tend to aggravate, having different implications for forest users and society at large, we are increasingly in need for collective efforts, actions, and partnership to deal with these global challenges. Facing these challenges require us to focus our efforts to better link science and policy and practice, to inform and guide public, private, and civil society, actions based on the best available science, but also to find pathways on what are the most cost-effective, equitable, and inclusive responses adapted to different social, economic, and cultural contexts. The different individual organizations that are embracing the new FDA partnership are certainly following this path according to their own vision, mission, and mandates, but working and engaging together in knowledge generation and evidence-based advocacy and implementation of actions on the ground may contribute to achieve collectively a greater impact. This new FDA partnership must build on existing lessons and opportunities for accelerating and scaling impact. The commitments embraced by governments, companies, and social organizations to stop deforestation, support forest and landscape restoration, and achieve net zero, which have forests and trees at the center, offer the chance to build together frameworks for impact, cost-effective, transition pathways, science-based targets, and approaches and metrics for impact monitoring. Additional, the growing recognition of Indigenous peoples and local communities as stewards of nature creates an important opportunity to engage them and by building on their knowledge and local practices to support them in strengthening their contributions to the whole society. This partnership should base its actions on the fundamental principle that positive outcomes for both people and nature depend on anchoring and integrating human and nature rights into the areas of scientific inquiry and the co-development of frameworks for action that are inspired by local knowledge, practices, values, and collective wisdom. Three ingredients should be considered for this partnership to make a difference. The first, this partnership should inspire, build, and promote holistic and integrated perspectives of understanding of nature and society interactions and systems thinking, which at the same time should build on a specialized disciplinary knowledge for recommending options and responses involving use of forest trees and agroforestry for positive impact on people, nature, and climate. The second ingredient for this partnership to succeed is to become truly collaborative and effectively bridge perspectives and interests of both research and implementation organizations by offering a shared research and action agenda focused on forest trees and agroforestry. The third ingredient is to be able to embrace and actively support an inclusive science across all their dimensions. This involves cross-learning among scientists from different backgrounds to involve scientists from less developed countries as well as scientists from minority groups. An inclusive science also involves actively working on the co-creation of knowledge, which offers the opportunity to tap into the collective wisdom. In short, this partnership should not only be about to put together the organization's actions on the generation of knowledge and evidence-based advocacy and implementation, but to do so in ways that are able to generate an impact at the speed and scale that is urgently needed. Thanks for your attention. We thank Dr. Pacheco for having highlighted these three ingredients and therefore having given us what I consider to be a good recipe for the future work of the FTA partnership. Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, both all those of you present here in the room, as well as those joining us online, it is now your turn for an interactive for the interactive segment of this side event. No questions. And the first slide of question actually looks at what the new demands are towards forests and trees in tropical landscapes and globally. You are asked to actually provide the one keyword that you consider to be the most significant new demand towards forests and trees in tropical landscapes and globally. Since not all of you may be familiar with this Lido, I would ask Fabio to very briefly explain how that works. Thank you very much, Alexander. So as you will see my screen on display right now, there is a website that you have to join or you can scan the QR code with your mobile phone and click on the link that will become active. Once you reach the website, you can type this code which is WFC, stands for World Forestry Congress, FTA, which is the partnership we are launching today. And you will join the room, the Slido room. And now I will activate the Slido so you will see the first question that Alexander has just mentioned. And the code is always available on the left side so you can always join if you haven't yet. And you can type your question. I'm sorry, your answer? Yeah. Well, no, that's the code of the room. But okay, we'll take that as a test. So we'll give it a bit of time for people to join. Yeah, perfect. So the answers are coming in. I admire you. My technical talent is very limited, but it seems that each one of you is much more skillful than I am. So we do already have a good number of terms, key terms, key demands for the role of forest and trees in the future in tropical landscapes and globally. And I once more would also want to encourage our participants online to scan the QR code or visit the webpage and give us the terms. And here we are. So we do already have some front runners, the nutrition, the well-being, but there are many more terms that are displayed on the screen as you can see and more keep coming in. Livelihoods also turn out to be a very important term. So it seems we do have some nice terms. Fabio, should we still keep it open a little while or? Yes, I think the answers are still coming in. So you can see there's a little number on top. So it gives you the number of answers that have been pitched in and it's grown still. So you want to maybe give it another second. It's changing very quickly. Now wood has become the lead. Wood takes the center stage at the moment, but other terms that are very popular are well-being, biodiversity, livelihoods, valuation and obviously also climate adaptation. This is quite exciting. I think we're stuck at 33, so this is the overall result. We've got one new now, but I think we can move. Thank you, Fabio. Then let's close this slide of Paul for the time being. Don't be disappointed there will be a second round where you can again give an answer through the slide of Paul. So looking at the screen, we do now have three terms that feature very prominently the top three. I would say climate adaptation and indeed that has also been mentioned by several of the panelists has been identified as a major new demand, not precisely new, but certainly very important. Wood, I guess also against the backdrop drop of the political events globally, wood has become, if anything, even more important. Valuation has been mentioned by several of the panelists, but also the audience considers it to be a very important demand for the future and that is followed by the terms nutrition, biodiversity, well-being, ecosystem services, livelihoods and resilience. So I think we can see a good spectrum of new demands on forests and trees and I'd ask you now to keep these terms in mind as we are going to proceed with the next slide of question because the next slide of question is the following. What are the major constraints or bottlenecks to unlocking the potential of forests and trees to meet these new demands? So what are the major constraints and bottlenecks, for example, really for adapting forests effectively, forest and trees in agroforestry landscapes to climate change? How can we ensure wood production in the future and so forth? And I now again encourage you to submit your key terms and already they keep coming in. Governance and land right feature very strongly at the moment. We do also have a solution already which is the FTA partnership in the future that was briefly visible on the screen. Finance, conflicting interests and more keep coming. Poor governance and knowledge have joined the most prominent, the most frequently mentioned terms. So governance really continues to take center stage in this slide or it seems, with related issues such as the land rights, the sectoral approach, the conflicting interests and so on. And Fabio, I think we do have 39 answers already. So our participants are very active which is very good. Yep. And it seems to have stopped at 39. So I'll block the voting and you can comment. Oh no, we have a 40th one. Okay. Perfect. That's a round number that looks good. We can lock it. Let's close the slide over here. And I think what is quite clear from the results of this LIDO that really issues of governance are a major constraint or bottleneck that limits the currently the contribution of forests and trees and landscapes towards meeting the new demands that we have seen in the previous LIDO. And there are a number of issues that are related to this broad issue of governance such as the land rights, the conflicting interests of the different stakeholders, the inconsistent policies, but also partly some solutions such as incentives, as policy instruments and so on. But also knowledge and education and features quite prominently in this LIDO. So I would like to thank everyone, both you colleagues in the room, but also the participants online for having been so active in this LIDO. And now, actually, I would like to ask our panelists both the two physically present in the room, but also the one online to actually now reflect very briefly on the following question. Now that you have seen and heard what the demands are and what the bottlenecks are, what in your view are the most important research and knowledge gaps in terms of addressing these new demands, but also the constraints. And I guess that question goes first and foremost to our panelists representing the scientific community. So, John, and also a colleague from ACATIE, what do you consider to be the most important research and knowledge gaps? Shall I begin? Please, John, please. No, I think the one that stood out in that slide, I think the issue of valuation. I think that that's probably, I think that that's getting a better handle on the full value of forests for people in all dimensions of forest values, whether it's not just economic, but social, cultural, spiritual. I mean, the evaluation methods for these things are very much under development and need to be further explored under particular and adapted to particular landscapes. I think this is a key importance, particularly for influencing policy, because I think at present, forests are really unseen as a value for anything other than wood and plus the two dollars per ton of carbon. So clearly, we're not making the case for the full value of forests at present and I would pick on that one as a priority. Thank you very much, John. I guess this is perhaps not only a research challenge, but also a challenge of communication and also political decision making, but a very important one. Aline, could I ask you what in your view is the most important research or what are the most important research and knowledge gaps with regards to the demands and bottlenecks that have been identified by our participants? Yeah, I think one of the main things that we need to do more research or how to communicate better with the decision makers is about the tree rights, because people don't realize the full potential from trees because they don't have the rights to harvest the trees. So I think we need to better understand and to provide the knowledge about these these rights, how to acknowledge the right from the people, from the communities to access forests or trees that grow in their farms. So we need to tackle that and also we have seen that research don't go to the university and change the curriculum. So we need to do more more involvement with the university programs. So we need to acknowledge how to manage trees and better have the skills and knowledge to understand how to grow trees and how to introduce trees and other management options. So we have the full landscape of solutions, not only plots with trees, but also inserting these trees with other components like agroforestry system, cocoa or coffee or growing annual crops. So we need to introduce genome of trees management at the landscape level. So I think we need to have better understanding on how to communicate this at this level, with the university level, with the extension, and also don't forget the things about rights. Thank you so much, Aline, for making these very important points. And I saw taking many notes, so your input by all the panelists has been very properly recorded. Of course, I mean, the research is one part of the solution, but of course, the future partnership will be much more than that. It will also be about communication, dissemination, but also about implementation, stakeholder engagement. And therefore, I want to follow up with one other question, both to the audience in the room, but also the panel. And that is what are the most important implementation and policy gaps in addressing these needs, as this will be equally important. And I'm looking at the audience here in the room. I'm not sure, Mr. Dean, if you would like to speak briefly to the topic of what are the most implementation policy gaps? Based on my experience, I was a project manager in Indonesia 10 years ago. I worked in Korean Flyers Service. I'm a government official at the time. I had two projects. One is ARC-DM in Berlin, Dreyland, Lombok, and East Lombok, and another project was the R&D plus capacity building and energy. Well, actually, I was a second project manager. First, my former project manager already planned to plant tree species, but it's impossible because the planting season is only three months, December, January, February. Only three months, we can plant trees. And another challenge is the sites which planted trees planted another species, corn. Corn species. First, we planted trees for our project. After that, all of the sites are corn growing. So our plan is to plant fruit trees, 50% fruit trees. After that, it was improved. So in my experience, we needed to consider the field situation. So that's my first experience. And second is my maybe four years, five years ago, I already worked in Mongolia. Mongolia, there is very our project is the Greenbelt project for anti-digitification. So we we needed some fence fencing and we needed some watering. So and the site is very expensive because every five days, we needed watering. So I need researchers in Nipah, Korea Forest Science Researcher. I request the researcher to research the deeper watering system. So when we allowed about the five zones, the one zone is the same watering system and another is no watering. Number three is the or monthly basis. Anyway, we we could do some research. So maybe this evidence-based watering system, I try to do, I don't know, the before the result I come back to Korea. So yeah, anyway, this is my experience. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Jin, for sharing with us these practical examples that also illustrate, you know, the challenge of applying the scientific evidence on the ground. And I think we all sense the passion with which you went about these undertaking. So thank you very much. Colleagues, yes, I think we do have time for one intervention from the from the floor. And then since we're already lagging behind skating slightly, I think we must move on to the next part. But please. Thanks very much, Alexander. I just wanted to raise a question about... Andrew, could I ask you to use the microphone? Sorry, I just wanted to raise a question in response to a point that John raised in his introductory remarks, which is how are we responding to changing circumstances, which aren't just climate change? I think we're all cognisant that we are now in a particularly those of us who live in Europe in a new context in terms of a conflict on our borders, which is having profound implications in terms of global wheat and sunflower markets. And what I noticed in the two slides in terms of the Slido responses, the whole issue of agri-food commodity markets did not feature at all. And yet the evidence that we have that's been published in umpteen journals suggests that probably the major driver of deforestation is associated with... Okay, Vincent has now put it in. Good. So I just wanted to raise that issue because I think it is an extremely important issue. And that's partly inspired by an excellent panel that I attended previously to this session that was hosted by IDH from Indonesia. So I just wanted to raise that. Thank you, Andrew. Dr. Andrew Bordel, CIFER for also bringing our attention, the need to actually also think broadly beyond our own sectoral boundaries. Of course, this is a congress here focused predominantly on forest per se, but I think this is really very important to keep this in mind. Thank you very much. But I do believe that in the next segment of this side event, we do also have a few answers or potential, you know, modalities for finding answers to the new demands and challenges that have been raised. And therefore, it's my pleasure to hand the floor back to... To hand the podium back to Vincent to moderate the next segment of the side. And thank you to all the panelists. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Alexander. And so in the last half an hour, we will present the new partnership. So what we wanted to do is have a joint presentation of all the partners, the certain partners that are currently engaged in constituting this partnership. It was a bit difficult to have one presentation with 13 voices. So I will make one initial presentation, but then the partner, some of the partners in the room and some online will say a little bit about their perspectives, why are they most interested in? And in fact, why are they... Why do they want to team up to do all of this? So the presentation... So I just apologize that not anyone involved in the constitution of the partnership will be able to speak today, but there'll be for sure other opportunities because we don't have sufficient time. Okay. So the premises for a new FDA started, as Robert has also mentioned a bit more than a year ago in 2011, when there was first an external review of the CGIR collaborative research program that concluded that the program was successful and that it needed to somehow evolve and continue to address some critical research for development needs. And there is the global impetus that we all know about about the big issues and the big conferences that have launched, in fact, new new agendas ahead that have in fact reinforced the importance of forest entries and agroforestry to achieve all the multiple objectives. And most importantly, that this really requires some new forms of collaborative approaches. So we've also laid the ground on a very solid scientific and implementation collaboration for a decade. So we just published with all the partners a series of 18, the historical partners, in fact, of phase one and two, a series of highlights that explains and details all the achievements over a decade and build on that and our idea or common idea was to build something that would help actors, other actors to work with other actors to strengthen and to leverage fully the contribution of forestry is for the SDGs. So that's both the synergies and the tradeoffs and the solutions to develop for actors. And to do that, there are three main functions of the partnership. First, knowledge and solution generation, compilation analysis and sharing. And these are functions that are already functions of the partners and some of the partners share all the three functions so that the idea is really to pull things up and to share and to learn across. This first function will go from scientific knowledge, technical options, methods to the approaches to management and also policy options across a range of contexts as we've seen is often a bottleneck. If we do it wrong or maladapted and facilitation of exchange of knowledge and lessons learned. The second one is evidence-based advocacy, communication, engagement. I think that's a touch issue that we don't think we should shy away from making the case in an evidence-based way that forestry is not going to forestry matter and make that visible also in other sectors. We're talking to the forestry world, but we need to do that also in other sectors. And then the third is operational engagement. So that is not necessarily to do completely new modalities than was existing before, but it's just that this new partnership will facilitate and support the sourcing of funds and co-development of projects across amongst partners towards underground actions. And this is a partnership of complementary partners to have collaborative gains and synergies of meaningful size with 13, 14 perhaps for global relevance and impact, but still manageable for efficiency and building on some solid, previous collaboration and mutual trust to be effective. So that also funders or actors that would call on us who trust us that we are able to, we know each other and we are able to deliver together in an effective and an efficient way. Here in this slide in green, you have the names of the partners that are currently finalizing the discussion on the charter. In fact, the charter is ready. We would have signed it here, but it's just too difficult to do it because it's a hybrid conference. So we'll do that in the next few days. Some of the thematic priorities being discussed, I think new have probably emerged also today, but came on top of the agenda, the issues of biocircular economy of how we link the evolution of value chain and how they interplay and act on landscapes, the issue of land use and forest, how to help the Glasgow declaration being implemented, of course restoration, sustainable finance and in particular landscape finance, which is in fact one element of the corner between of the triangle with restoration and the biocircular economy. And then climate change and last but not least forest management for production by diversity and conservation. I think these are perhaps long-standing issues that needs to be heavily revisited in the new demand and then inclusion agenda. That from what different partners have so far discussed but have in fact immediately in the next few weeks some meetings to set that up and say and decide where we could start. I'm going to enter too much into the details because we want to be too complicated administratively but there will be a strategic group formed by the core partners and the strategic group will create, call on whatever we call them, task force, working groups, collaborative networks to work amongst themselves that have military and maybe with most often the case with others partners to work on an issue. Okay, the little dots on the bottom are projects that will be elaborated jointly with sets of partners and then we have also the idea to all together construct a vehicle for funders, a trust fund that would be in fact then serve the purpose especially cross-cutting and integrative activities but also thematic activities. All of this will be in fact settled down by the core partners in the few days. We have a logo that is also symbolizing the tree as of course our element of work and our solution for the planet. We have the pathway here and we have the circle, the pathway to our system of development and we have the circle as the earth. We don't have people and I think this is quite important we will find a way to add people or to find a way that because a logo needs to have trees but it needs to have people that need a clear message from today but also from this congress. So now without further ado that's my short presentation on behalf of the 13 partners. I hope it was accurate to what we're constructing and I would like to now give the floor to some of our partners in fact to thank you Alexander to say a few words briefly so perhaps calling on the podium maybe Pablo Jacome I'm not sure because I have not my glasses so I'm so sorry and then Salvatore Pinizzotto so Pablo Jacome is from INBA represents INBA Salvatore Pinizzotto is the executive secretary of the international rubber study group IRSG and then we will have on video or well live but on video Eric Scheitzer who is the representative the chef of in Brapa Florestas and Madeleine Fogde from Siani the Swedish international agricultural network initiative. So perhaps we start with yes one thing Eric is on Zoom and he would like to make his intervention live so exactly that's that's excellent good so perhaps we start with Pablo and my question to you is why is INBA interested what would you like to do with the other partners. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here and also on behalf of INBA and well my colleague Lee Yancha who is the the one who is leading all these programs from HQ. Well we have a really good experience with all FTA from these last five to six years that we have been working together and also to providing and addressing some fundamental knowledge gaps that we have relating to Bamboo and Ratan sector and and this helped to provide a solid scientific base evidence for the for the for the sector because we will link it all these research with an active project that we have in the field. So this is real research to action because this help to provide this evidence that for example in in in region like like in Latin America or Africa we didn't have too much research regarding with bamboo. So all these experience provide a really global recognition of the bamboo and Ratan has a natural based solution and also contribute to the better policy instrument and transformation for a linear development to a circular and sustainable development. Up to now we have been publishing more than 70 research reports on paper regarding with bamboo is a really great contribution that we have in this program and also all these results we have been showing different sessions or meetings in the world for example in the in three real convention UNFFA GF event and also through our partners 48 partners. However there is a lot of things to we need to scaling up the potential of of these the bamboo that needs to be keep researching and in this new FTA partnership is an inclusive gathering of stakeholders to from forestry and agro forestry sector build on the strength and advantage of each partner to fully manifest the trigger the sectoral contribution to nature and human and sustainable development. And this new FTA partnership in bar will aim to partner to share our evidence in base knowledge consolidate technical solution for outscaling and upscaling strengthening cooperation and communication between our partners and especially with the communities and with the government. And the thematic priorities include for this new moment is biodiversity conservation on bamboo and ratan resources. I think it's really important to keep researching and linking all these experience or trying to link and to provide more evidence about all the how the biodiversity conservation on bamboo resources can provide benefits to the communities and also ecosystem restoration. I think it's one of the challenges that we have not only in in regions like Latin America but also in the case of Africa. And now we are talking a lot about inclusive bio circular economy and we thought we think that bamboo is really a resource that can provide all these opportunities to talk with a real bio circular economy and also a combating climate change with bamboo and facilitate better policy instrument to local national and regional and international level coordination. So as I said we are very proud and also we are very happy to keep working together with FTA and we all the partnership that we are and we we look forward to keep building a really strained research to action activities regarding with bamboo. So and also well it's a pleasure also well it's a pleasure to finally we can meet in person. And Pablo I forgot to mention apologies that that you are the the director of the of Inba Latin America and the Caribbean office in Peru. No sorry in Quito Ecuador. So I'm very happy to meet you in person today. The next I think the next person to give a perspective we take a video Fabio from oh no an intervention from Eric Shaitza from Brazil because Eric has made the kind effort to be with us at this time. Yes Eric is in Zoom with us. So Eric the floor is yours. Well thank you very much. First greetings to all I am Eric Shaitza and I work to the Brazilian NARO the National Agricultural Research Organization named Imbrapa. As Dr. Nasi said we would be proud in 10 years about being here in this launch but the fact is I'm already proud. I think FDA coordination united a large array of people and put together organizations in the discussion and I feel very included in these discussions since the beginning. It's not every day that we have a UFO, FAO, NAROS and scientific groups of all over the world. So I'm here participating in this group to learn lessons and the first one I learned is how to organize a cooperative project and how to bring about bring together people. So thank you very much Vincent and Tim you were great along these years. When we look at our national priorities and vision we see that FDA has there's a large shadow of FDA vision and share and plannings with our national priorities. So what I mean is that we think very much like you. We hope that FDA is a voice that should house deforestation by providing paths to wealth and for people and sustainable environmental management. Those paths pass through certainly through sustainable management of forests, a new bioeconomy of forests, the understanding of social processes and enabling forests in the life of all farmers no matter which is the productive system that supports the families. Finally, we hope that FDA provides us a very strong platform for communication and participation and we've seen that it is already working even before it is launched. And so with that I would like to thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you very much for helping us build a better future. Bye bye Fafda, that's it. Oh I hope I have kept my time. Thank you Eric for making the challenge to intervene so early in your morning from Brazil and then we still have two speakers and then we'll perhaps have a time for an exchange that will close but Salvatore Pinizzotto you are the executive secretary of the international rubber study group. Thank you Vincent and thanks for inviting me participating in this historic event. It doesn't happen every day to be an historic event so I think I'm very glad to be here and bring a bit of perspective from the rubber sector. I think it's we embarked with FDA but also with the international research and rubber research and development board and WTCRAD as well in a comprehensive work related to climate change and the impact on natural rubber system and we started to work together in 2020, June 2020 and we brought forward a process that has bring us in putting together a policy paper a draft policy papers that ISG also shared with all stakeholders in our industry and I think these exercises showed as powerful it is to work together in a free environment and sharing information with other organizations and research and development organizations because I think research and development organizations have a big role to play also in rubber because first of all as I think Robert and as he also mentioned there is a lack of data so we need scientific based information and we need also to be sure that whatever we find out and the solutions that we identify also brought on the ground because today in rubber there is a big gap in between the knowledge that it is created in universities or research and development organizations and actually what is happening on the ground so we need to reduce this gap and to do so we need new partnership so partnership that as I said based on free sharing of information and knowledge based that across countries and beyond any borders because we know that there are a lot of challenges most of challenges are different on country by country basis but we have the skills and the capabilities and sometimes also the knowledge to over to overcome these challenges and make sure that they become opportunities for everyone and and one last point it's important also to develop social and economic research because on that side there is completely lack of information we know for instance that in natural rubber 85 percent of the 14 million tons of natural rubber producing the world every year is produced by small holders but we don't know exactly who these small holders are on country by country basis and globally and how we can really help them to be sustainable sustainable in the long run so we need we have a lot a lot to learn a lot to do and the only way is to do it together so I think FTA partnership should be an opportunity for everyone working in the rubber sector to take advantage of this collaboration and really bringing some solution on the ground thank you very much thank you very much salvatore and and so we're very glad to for this opportunity to really engage a new chapter of working with with irsg I think in bar joined the FTA in 2017 as a as a co-partner and really delighted that based on on already a good good collaborative productive research and development work we can really now also continue working with irsg and when I say we it's really not just a C4 aircraft on my own organization it's C hard etc and other partners working together last speaker is madeline I think from the from video Fabio yes correct I am putting in Sweden and siani hello to you and so my name is madeline fugte and I work for siani the swidge international agriculture network initiative I'm based in Sweden and I work together with another network called focaoli in the forest climate and livelihood network we are both both the networks are supported by sida our mission is to work towards transformation of food system making food system sustainable rights-based and inclusive the smallholder producers and marginalized groups in the landscapes we acknowledged that we cannot talk about sustainable food system unless we take in consideration the biosystems and the biodiversity and the healthy ecosystem which are fundamental for food systems we share the vision of a partners here in the consortium we of the importance of forest and agroforestry and landscape restoration for achievement of a sustainable development goals in particular we believe that food systems that are based on agroforestry systems with integration of trees in the same lands as crop production and husbandry promotes a lot a variety of ecosystem services as well as it also enhanced biodiversity the promotion of agroforestry system can help us to mitigate major challenges like climate change environmental degradation by diversity loss but most importantly it helps people to achieve a more sustainable livelihood to actually be food secure and also to produce a little bit of money that they can use for other purposes we look forward to working collaboration to identify jointly with you knowledge gaps that can help us to restore the forest landscapes and agroforestry systems we acknowledge that we need more knowledge system that's scientific we will need knowledge indigenous knowledge we need local knowledge we need knowledge from actors from different sectors that operates in its landscapes it's only in collaboration and sharing knowledge with each other that we will be able to find the sustainable pathway towards the transformation of the food system that we have today thank you very much and good luck with your work today and the closing of this seminar bye-bye from sweden thank you thank you madeline for speaking also on behalf of focalee so we are now running over time for two minutes so i guess we we can close unless there is a burning question or a burning remark from from the room so i forgot something so just before we close i would like just to uh present some apologies to those of the partners who didn't have the chance to speak because just we couldn't have the time so we can promise them that next time they will be the first in a row that's tropenbos international a secret red rick was on was online the alliance seahawk and the chinese academy on forestry but next time they'll come first for sure at the moment of closing just a few a few a few remarks i think we we're not going to hit a bit the ground running and and start working immediately on on ideas for for projects on on important issues when we think we are most better equipped or more convincing when we go together and not necessarily the 14 together all the time but sometimes by by smaller groups but at least that we share what we what we gain across everybody i was very impressed of the speed and robert said it was very difficult or painful in there and was very impressed by the speed by which we we are constructing this this this partnership i think that's really also because of the good spirit and of collaboration i think you've seen that here today and yes what the world calls for broader partnerships because we are there is a trend that we get better at what we do and then we get a bit specialized and we but but that the the counterpart is that we need also to to to team up with others that have other other specialties or other comparative advantages and also because there are more complex solutions to be liberated in various in a diversity of context and and so on and when we talk about scaling up nobody's going to scale up alone that's that's for sure and this is where we need some form of of new form of distributed networked partnership to put research in implementation when implementation is going to happen all over the place but something we need to make sense and assemble knowledge and information that and learning as we go learning loops as we go that that comes from this implementation if we if our governments come to implement the vision that they've set up so we need these partnerships to understand better the problems to be mobilized approaches that are more suited to context to be more creative and then to have I think to put in this is also why we have really put the effort on having actors in this partnership that are very close to people civil societies and so on because we need the perspectives of people in research to vigiate or scan collectively what's happening and what is what is the problems that what are the solutions so as Robert said at the beginning it's time fraction but it's also time for research embedded into action so I think that's our next steps we're going to look at the priorities and start working immediately on on issues thankfully we have no virtual means to do so we don't need to set up a meeting in six months somewhere in the world we can do it right away I think everybody is in that spirit so thanks thanks to all and yeah and a good sweet of the first sweet of the congress