The second meeting of the Organizing and Steering Committees for the "Joint initiative on addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation", will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 12-15 May. The Steering Committee meeting (13-14) will be open to interested individuals. The Organizing Committee will hold a meeting on 12 and 15 May. There will also be a special event on recent developments in global forest policy on May 12th, lunchtime and a number of roundtables on related issues during the following days. All meetings will be held at the venue of the fourth Conference of the Parties of the Biodiversity Convention, Incheba a.s., Viedenska cesta 5, 85251 Bratislava, Slovakia.
For more information please contact the Global Secretariat (World Rainforest Movement) or (Simone Lovera, Netherlands Committee for IUCN).