16. 在过去一年半，伙伴关系有几个成员，包括粮农组织、政府间气候变化问题小组（气候小组）、国际林业研究中心、国际林业研究组织联合会（国际林研联）和联合国环境规划署（环境规划署），都在合作，努力调和与森林有关的定义。2002 年 1 月和 2002 年 9 月在罗马粮农组织总部举行了两次专家会议。这项倡议审查了在向国际进程和组织汇报中使用的一些与森林有关的定义，并查明促进调和的可能性。它建议有关的个别实体继续努力，以调和这些术语。这两次会议的报告 8 已广为分发。
16. Over the past year and a half, several Partnership members, including FAO, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Center for International Forestry Research, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), have been collaborating in an effort to harmonize forest-related definitions. Two expert meetings have been held, in January 2002 and September 2002, at FAO headquarters in Rome. This initiative examined a number of forest-related definitions used in reporting to international processes and organizations and identified potentials for harmonization. It recommended that the individual entities concerned continue to work to harmonize the terms. The reports8 of the two meetings have been widely distributed.