APFNet has contributed to these efforts by supporting project partners to develop new and improved methods
to measure carbon on regional, national, and local scales and demonstrate how to enhance carbon storage via forest
management. Specifically in this book, we include contextual information about MRV processes, carbon accounting
methodologies, international reporting, and a full overview of APFNet’s efforts in carbon emissions accounting and
carbon stocks to help APFNet member economies gain insights into our work and improve the tools to enhance their
efforts in carbon accounting.

The annual report covers the events and activities of APFNet, with a focus on our core work and accomplishments through the year.

The annual report covers the events and activities of APFNet, with a focus on our core work and accomplishments through the year.

The annual report covers the events and activities of APFNet, with a focus on our core work and accomplishments through the year.

The Sydney Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development, adopted at the fifteenth APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 2007, announced an APEC-wide aspirational goal of increasing forest cover in the region by at least 20 million hectares (ha) of all types of forests by 2020. This report assesses the extent to which the APEC 2020 Forest Cover Goal was achieved. It updates a progress report, published in 2015, with information provided in 2021 by 12 of the 21 APEC economies and an analysis of the 2020 Global Forest Resources Assessment.

This study traces the emergence of theories of governance fragmentation that ran in parallel to major
processes of sociopolitical restructuring that have occurred since the 1970s, often in response to economic movements emanating from dominant economies and the institutions formed post-WWII to promote global coordination of finance, trade, economic development, and eventually broad social and environmental
interests.

Rapid developments have made strategic forestry planning more complex, which calls for
considerable strengthening in strategic planning capability, the engagement of multiple stakeholders
and a new way of communicating on what forestry and forests are all about. The Asia-Pacific
Forestry Planning Network (FPN) of APFNet intends to address the planning challenges that economies are facing.