Commonwealth secretary-general Kamalesh Sharma will promote forest restoration when he speaks at the 2010 Commonwealth Forestry Conference in Edinburgh.
Accepting the invitation to speak at the conference next summer, Mr Sharma said forest benefits were being eroded by deforestation.
“If we are to restore the Commonwealth’s forests and preserve and expand their role in sustainable development and tacklng climate change, we need to share the hard-won practical knowledge of the type that we learned over the past 20 years in the ground-breaking Commonwealth reforestation project in Iwokrama, Guyana,” he said.
The conference, entitled “Restoring the Commonwealth’s Forests: Tackling Climate Change” is expected to attract influential scientists, foresters, policy-makers, civil leaders and others with a professional interest in forestry.
