UNFF delegates will discuss implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 and their three priorities of reversing the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, increasing the area of protected forests worldwide, and promoting governance frameworks to implement sustainable forest management.

In the lead up to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, the meeting will continue negotiations on the outcome document and invite observers to comment on the revised text.

Governments and other stakeholders completed their first full reading of the zero draft of the outcome document on financing for development, focusing on issues from illicit financial flows and reform of international financial institutions to corruption, official development assistance, and debt.

UN Member States started a three-year process to negotiate the convention and two protocols on priority issues. This process contributes to the discussion on reforming the architecture of the international financial system.