Agenda-Setting and Institution Building for Forests: Entangled Structures and the Failure of Legalization

Forests in International Law

“…343 See also . 344 However, while references to the concept of sustainable forest management and the underlying causes of forest loss-in quantitative and qualitative terms, such as deforestation, can be found within the "secondary"-or "soft-law of the treaties, 345 i.e. the COP decisions or guidelines, hardly any-respectively noreference is made within these treaties' substantial wording.…”