Contents ; Summary of workshop discussions (by the secretariat) ; Introduction ; Background ; Green Economy ; Information about the concepts related to green economy ; International Work on Measuring Methodologies for Progress to a Green Economy ; Natural Capital Assessment Methods ; Key takeaways from the discussion on Green Economy ; Forests in Green Economy ; Forest Sector Assessment Systems and Criteria and Indicators in the context of a Green Economy ; The Role of Green Accounting in Measuring the Progress of Forests in a Green Economy ; An approach to measuring progress of the forest sector towards a green economy ; Forest Europe Criteria and Indicators for sustainable Forest Management ; Montreal Process on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests ; Key takeaways from the discussion on Forest Assessment Methods in the Context of the Green Economy ; Findings and Recommendations
Forest sector produces already a lot of data for monitoring of the state of forests, the implementation of the sustainable forest management and the trends in the wood processing industries. There exist well established harmonised international data sets which are used by the actors in the forest sector. However this data seems not to be visible and available to the stakeholders from outside the forest sector. Therefore, more effort should be made to communicate the forest related information to actors dealing with macroeconomic analysis, keeping in mind the needs of the green economy analysis and the emerging measuring system of progress to achievement of SDGs, the Paris Agreement and others. The forest sector should make sure that the information produced is communicated
in a way that it is understood outside the forest sector. Also, the information should cover not only how the forest sector makes progress towards a green economy but also how it contributes to the achievement of green economy in other sectors and as a whole.
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