Fall 2005

The Montréal Process

The 1992 Earth Summit, or United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), called upon all nations to ensure sustainable development, including the management of all types of forests. Later, nine international working groups were formed to come up with the criteria and indicators to measure progress towards sustainability goals. The Montréal Process, one of the nine working groups, was brought together in June 1994 to develop criteria and indicators for temperate and boreal forests.

In 1995, the member countries agreed on 7 criteria and 67 indicators. One Montréal Process criterion is the conservation of biodiversity; fragmentation of forest types is one indicator within that criterion.

Present members of the Montréal Process include the United States, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Republic of Korea, Chile, Mexico, China, the Russian Federation, Uruguay, and Argentina.

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For more information:
http://www.mpci.org