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In October 2002, the Executive Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a new forests operational policy for the Bank and endorsed a new strategy in support of the policy. The new forests policy and strategy chart a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in forests to help attain the goal of poverty reduction while safeguarding the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability.
This new appraoch is built upon "three pillars": harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty; integrating forests into sustainable economic development; and protecting global forest values. See below for an overview of these pillars, and for answers to key questions regarding how and why the previous policy was revised.
Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy can be downloaded from the link below in PDF format. Hard copies of Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy can be purchased through the World Bank's on-line publications store at: http://www.worldbank.org/publications/index.htm
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