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UN Forum on Forests warns U.N. financial crisis threatens secretariat’s work
Summary
At the opening of UNFF 20 in New York, leaders and the secretariat said an acute U.N. liquidity crisis and new tasks from the midterm review are outpacing the Forum’s resources and risk limiting its delivery on forest goals, with the secretariat urging more funding and a decision on workload needs.
Ismail Belem, chair of the United Nations Forum on Forests and a forest engineer from Turkey, opened the session on May 5 in New York and warned that “the United Nations is facing a serious financial crisis. This affects all aspect of its work.”
The forum's secretariat said that recent mandates from UNFF 19 added more than 30 tasks without corresponding program funding and that the resulting resource shortfall is jeopardizing the secretariat’s ability to support member states. Juliet Piau, director of the UNFF secretariat, told delegates, “this situation is not sustainable. The current resource insufficiency of the secretariat has put its delivery…
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