Forest conference 'a failure'
2005-05-28 09:40
United Nations - Despite alarming global deforestation rates, estimated at approximately 9.4m hectares per year, a United Nations conference on forest preservation ended on Friday with the chairman calling the event a "failure."
"At the end, we didn't agree," said Colombian chairman Manuel Rodriguez Becerra. "It's a collective failure. ... We were not able to agree in making decisions that are relevant for addressing the huge deforestation, the huge degradation of forests."
The final resolution from the UN Forum on Forests, which was held for two weeks at UN headquarters in New York, delayed all decision-making until the next conference scheduled for February 2006.
- AFP