Country representatives also emphasized the need to improve cross-sector collaboration at all levels in order to achieve more effective integration between forest policies and related policies, such as agriculture, energy, climate change, biodiversity and water. In addition, a number of representatives highlighted the importance of overcoming fragmentation by securing good coordination between different forest-related processes and funding mechanisms, in this context, several countries described the benefits for sustainable forest management of action taken at the national level in the context, for example, of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD)-plus programmes, the European Union Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade, and the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Representatives welcomed the forest-related elements of the proposed sustainable development goals and targets, and said that 2015 provided a unique opportunity to integrate forests into the post-2015 development agenda.