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Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry Latest Event : 2023-11-15
6th Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry

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  • 2023-11-15
  • Tokyo, Japan
■ Participants
Japan: Forestry Agency
China: State Forestry Administration
ROK: Korea Forest Service

■ Agenda
- Current situation of forest and forestry
- Function of forest for disaster prevention
- Promotion of wood utilization
- Promotion of legal timber trade
- Forest recreation, forest environmental education, forest health tourism

■ Outcome Documents
Record of Discussion
5th Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry
  • 2018-05-31
  • Yeongju, ROK
■Participants
China: State Forestry Administration
Japan: Forestry Agency
ROK: Korea Forest Service

■Outcome
Reaffirmed the ongoing efforts to promote trilateral cooperation on the specific agendas including SDG activities, national forest management, seed conservation, and forest therapy.
4th Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry
  • 2017.07.18
  • Xining, China
■Participants
China: State Forestry Administration
Japan: Forestry Agency
ROK: Korea Forest Service

■Agenda
1. Review of the outcome of the 3rd meeting
2. Promotion of legal timber trade
3. Multi-functional utilization of forest
4. Forest and Vegetation restoration in the arid area
5. Climate change response on forestry
6. Promotion of timber building

■Outcome
1. Held the 1st Working Group (WG) Meeting for Forestry Lexicon as a side meeting. The WG Meeting for Forestry Lexicon was initiated by TCS to standardize the usage of terminology on forestry among the three countries against the backdrop of having different usage of forestry terms in the newly developed area such as forest therapy.
2. Held CKJ sub-regional timber legality identification.
3. The three countries agreed that Japanese side will hold a CKJ symposium focus on MultiFunction Utilization of Forest in 2018, with the support by TCS.
4. The three countries agreed that the next Meeting will be hosted by Korea in 2018.

■Documents
Minutes of the 4th Trilateral Director General Level Meeting Among Republic of Korea, Japan and People’s Republic of China On Forestry Cooperation
3rd Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry
  • 2016.09.07
  • Tokyo, Japan
■Participants
China: State Forestry Administration
Japan: Forestry Agency
ROK: Korea Forest Service

■Agenda
1. Current situation of Forest and Forestry
2. Function of forest for disaster prevention
3. Forest recreation, forest environmental education, forest health tourism
4. Climate change and forest
5. Promotion of wood utilization

■Outcome
1. Exchanged in-depth discussions in various agenda, including current situation of forest and forestry; function of forest for disaster prevention; forest recreation, forest environmental education, forest health tourism, forest therapy; climate change and forest; and promotion of wood utilization.
2. Reaffirmed to further strengthen their cooperation in forestry by working out the detailed action plans in the relevant agenda.
3. TCS drafted the Record of Discussion of the Meeting.

■Documents
Minutes of the 3rd Trilateral Director General Level Meeting Among Republic of Korea, Japan and People’s Republic of China On Forestry Cooperation
2nd Trilateral Director-General Level Meeting on Forestry
  • 2015.01.22
  • Jeju, Korea
■Participants
China: State Forestry Administration
Japan: Forestry Agency
ROK: Korea Forest Service

■Agenda
1. Sustainable forest management
2. Climate change response
3. Forest recreation, healing and education
4. Cooperation on international forest issues
5. Action plan and the next meeting

■Outcome
1) Shared work plans of each organizations for the year of 2015
2) Shared the view on forest certification scheme
3) Discussed R&D cooperation on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) in Northeast Asia, carbon emission trading system and REDD+ pilot project, and measures against mountain disasters for climate change response.
4) Introduced forest recreation, healing and education of each country and noted the importance of this area.
5) Discussed cooperation on international forest issues such as:
- Legalizing non legally binding instrument of United National Forum on Forest (UNFF)
- Forest Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) and Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (FERI)
- Support for holding the 15th World Forestry Congress (WFC)
- Participation in exhibitions at the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference (IWFC) 2015
- Post-2015 UN sustainable development agenda
- APEC forest mechanism.
6) Signed the Minutes of the 2nd Trilateral Director General level Meeting.
7) TCS drafted the Record of Discussion of the Meeting.

■Documents
Minutes of the 2nd Trilateral Director General Level Meeting Among Republic of Korea, Japan and People’s Republic of China On Forestry Cooperation
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