Brazil was nominated to compete for the Future Policy Award 2011, which will choose the most inspiring and innovative forest policies that contribute to the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
Initiatives from 16 countries compete for the prize, including Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States of America, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, Nepal, Norway, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Rwanda, Turkey and Vietnam.
Brazil participates with three initiatives, including the Public Forest Management Law, adopted in 2006, which structured the management of forests in the country, set the legal support for forest concessions and created a body to deal with the issue at the federal level, the Brazilian Forest Service. The National Biodiversity Plan, established in 1998, and the Amazon Fund are also candidates.
The contestants were nominated by organizations such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The Future Policy Award is sponsored by the World Future Council, an organization that studies international politics based in Germany. This year, the institution chose to reward forest policy initiatives to commemorate the International Year of Forests.
The winners will be announced on September 21, 2011, in a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York (USA), organized in partnership with the Secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Source: Brazilian Forest Service
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