Forestry Agency

Annual Report

Annual Report on Forest and Forestry in Japan Fiscal Year 2024(PDF : 8,660KB)

The Montréal Process    

The Montréal Process is an initiative to promote the development and application of criteria and indicators for conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests. Its 12 member countries are Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Uruguay, and the United States of America. The initiative is named after the venue of the expert seminar on sustainable forest management of temperate and boreal forests held in 1993 in Montreal, Canada, where discussion started. Since the Working Group was formed, in 1994, it has been working on the development and revision of criteria/indicators, collection of data based on the indicators, and development of country reports.

The country report of the Montreal Process aims to analyze and explain the progress towards achieving sustainable forest management in each member country based on the seven criteria for sustainable forest management.

This 3rd Country Report has developed a synthesis of trends of the changes in the circumstances surrounding Japan’s forest and forestry after the compilation of the 2nd Country Report, based on the 54 indicators revised in 2009 and in the light of the revised Technical Notes on Implementation of the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators, Criteria 1-7 (the 3rd edition).

• The Montréal Process (External Link)

• The 3rd Country Report of Japan(PDF : 2,962KB)
     ( No.1(PDF : 1,864KB)、  No.2(PDF : 1,258KB)  )

 

Japan’s Voluntary National Report to the United Nations Forum on Forests  

The first-ever UN Strategic Plan for Forests (UNSPF) which provides an ambitious vision for global forests in 2030 was forged at United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council and the UN General Assembly on April 2017. UNSPF contains six Global Forest Goals and 26 associated targets, to be achieved by 2030. These Goals and their associated targets are at the heart of UNSPF and are aimed at contributing to progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

UNFF will conduct a midterm and the final review of the effectiveness of the international arrangement on forests in achieving its objectives. Voluntary national reports are a vital source of information for assessing progress towards implementation of the UNSPF and its Global Forest Goals and targets and the United Nations Forest Instrument.

Japan had compiled its national report based on the new format for voluntary national reporting adopted in 2018 and subsequently submitted the report to UNFF in 2019.

• Voluntary National Reports to UNFF (External Link)

• Japan’s Voluntary National Report(PDF : 359KB)