Co-Chairs’ Summary : Dialogue on Intensively Managed Planted Forests in Brazil

From 13-17 April 2008 The Forests Dialogue (TFD) convened 43 international leaders from the forest products industry, finance and investment sector, labor, the NGO community, academia, government, small forest owners, and local indigenous and rural communities in Espirito Santo and Bahia, Brazil for site visits and dialogue on intensively managed planted forests (IMPF).

The meeting was the final event in The Forests Dialogue’s IMPF dialogue series. After a 2005 scoping meeting in Gland Switzerland, the series has followed the format of a field tour with associated dialogue, first in China in 2006 and then in Indonesia in 2007. Summaries and presentations from the dialogues are available at www.theforestsdialogue.org/ifm.html.