The GFMC and the United Nations System
Landscape Fires and the United Nations System
Within the UN system a number of agencies and programmes have sectoral responsibilities in fire management and related fields. The following links facilitate the access to these activities. Most of the UN agencies have cooperative agreements with the GFMC. The first three documents provide summaries / reviews of the role of the UN and other international organizations in fire management. The following posts include the UN activities in which the GFMC has taken a lead or supporting role:
- Goldammer, J.G. 2019. Thirty Years International Wildland Fire Conferences: Review and Achievements of a Circumglobal Journey from Boston to Campo Grande (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- UN Inter-Agency Cooperation and Coordination in Wildland Fire Management Including Key International Organizations. A Review by the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Secretariat, UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (Final Draft – 07 November 2012) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
- Goldammer, J.G. 2006. Fire Management. Review of International Cooperation. FAO Fire Management Working Paper FM18, 45 p. (PDF, 0.6 MB)
- UN-FAO/ECE/ILO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire
- International Forest Fire News
- UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)
- United Nations University (UNU)
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Joint UNEP / OCHA Environment Unit
- UN Forum on Forests (UNFF)
- Synergies between the three Rio Conventions (UN CBD, CCD, FCCC)
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA)
