Forestry

Links

Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission overview of available reports that explore the role of forestry and climate change.

Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust works to enable the creation of more native woods and places rich in trees, protect woods, trees and their wildlife for the future and inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees.

Publications

Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s (DARD) Forest Service are seeking comments on the first Forestry Guidelines written specifically to help forest managers meet the challenges of climate change. For more information, go to the Guidelines published on forests and climate change webpage.

World Bank

The World Bank’s mission is to alleviate poverty and support sustainable development. Their report Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: Ecosystem‐based approaches to climate change is targeted at both Bank task teams and clients, and suggests an ecosystem-based approached adaptation and mitigation. (pdf, 2.4 KB)

European Commission Agriculture & Rural Development

The study Impacts of climate change on European forests and options for adaptation compiles and summarises existing knowledge about the observed and projected impacts of climate change on forests in Europe, and reviews options for the forestry sector to adapt to climate change.