The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has published the final report on the World Bank’s proposal for a Global Forest Partnership (GFP). GFP is an emerging initiative that could pave the way for fundamental change in the way forests are managed, boosting efforts to fight both poverty and climate change.

The conference papers of the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons "Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges" are now availabe online. IASC Conference 2008 will be held at Cheltenham, England from July 14 to July 18, 2008.

In October 2007 governments of Nepal and Finland agreed to expand the water and sanitation sector to cover the cooperation in water and sanitation, environment and forestry sectors. The new cooperation sector was labelled as "natural resources". Subsequently, an identification mission was conducted during 7 – 17 January 2008 in Kathmandu as a first step towards formulating a joint project/programme for forest sector development in Nepal.

In a new book 'Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment II', K. Giri, B. Pokhrel and I. Darnhofer have a chapter on male outmigration and women's role in forest management in the mid-hills of Nepal. The book contains papers presented at the Second International Conference on Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment, held in Cadiz, Spain, in 28 - 30 May, 2008.

National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) has released a new book entitled “Shifting Paradigms in Protected Area Management”. The book is edited by Dr. Siddhartha Bajra Bajracharya and Mr. Ngamindra Dahal of NTNC.

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific has released a new publication 'Re-inventing forestry agencies: experiences of institutional restructuring in Asia and the Pacific'. This publication contains nine case studies from China, India, Malaysia (Sarawak and FRIM), Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines, United States of America and Viet Nam.