abstract:The Forest Principles is the informal name given to the Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests (1992), a document produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit. United Nations: Forest Principles.
Governments should be supporting it but it really has come out independently from both the ForestPrinciples and the Convention on Biological Diversity.