Forests for Green Pakistan: Forest Policy Note

doi:10.1596/30936

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Forests for Green Pakistan: Forest Policy Note

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-04T18:05:17Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-04T18:05:17Z
dc.date.issued	2018-06
dc.description.abstract	The forest cover in Pakistan is low. The latest forest assessment from 2011 estimates 4.47 million ha of total forest area in the country, or 5.1 percent of the total land area (Bukhari, Laeeq, and Ali 2012). Distribution of forests varies by province and other administrative area; it is highest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (32.7 percent), followed by Sindh (14.8 percent), Punjab (12.4 percent), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (11.9 percent), Balochistan (11.1 percent), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (9.6 percent), and Gilgit-Baltistan (7 percent). The World Bank supported Pakistan's forestry sector until 2000, and then remained disengaged until 2015. Few other donors, primarily the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and international non-governmental organizations such as World Wildlife Fund, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, maintained support on a small scale. Since 2015, the World Bank has been supporting Pakistan with $7.4 million to help the country prepare for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through technical studies, consultations, and capacity-building activities. Long-term forest investments are required to harness the huge potential of forest contributions to resilient ecosystems, rural livelihoods, the national economy, and the global environment. In recent years the government has augmented its attention to forests, as demonstrated by the nationally determined contribution, the Green Pakistan Program, and the Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Program. Future support is needed to enhance and scale up these new and important initiatives in order to strengthen landscape management, reduce poverty and improve livelihoods, and foster private sector development.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/823081541716238227/Forests-for-Green-Pakistan-Forest-Policy-Note
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/30936
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/30936
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	FORESTRY
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
dc.subject	GREEN GROWTH
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.title	Forests for Green Pakistan	en
dc.title.subtitle	Forest Policy Note	en
dc.type	Policy Note	en
dc.type	Document de politique générale	fr
dc.type	Documento de políticas	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Forests for Green Pakistan
okr.date.disclosure	2018-11-08
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Policy Notes
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/823081541716238227/Forests-for-Green-Pakistan-Forest-Policy-Note
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/30936
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okr.identifier.report	131906
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/823081541716238227/pdf/131906-PN-P161071-PUBLIC-Pakistan-Forest-Policy-Note-16092018.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	Pakistan
okr.topic	Agriculture::Climate Change and Agriculture
okr.topic	Agriculture::Forestry Management
okr.topic	Environment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topic	Environment::Climate Change and Environment
okr.topic	Environment::Forests and Forestry
okr.topic	Environment::Natural Resources Management
okr.topic	Environment::Sustainable Land Management
okr.unit	ENR GP SAR (GEN06)