1.International Forest related policy linked to development of international forest governance regime

2.United Nations Forum on Forests produced a report in 2007 – International Forest Policy – the instruments, agreements and processes that shape it

3.Policy – purposive course of action or inaction that an actor or set of actors take to deal with a problem (McDermott et al 2007)

4.No single ‘forest convention’ or legally binding instrument focused primarily on forests

5.A plethora of instruments & processes has been developed – vary in focus, scale, geographic scope & institutional type

6.Focus ranges from protection of biodiversity, climate change mitigation (& adaptation), trade, combating illegal logging etc