Forest Management and Climate Change: stakeholder perceptions

FAO, in collaboration with forest management, climate change experts and relevant stakeholders, develops guidelines to assist forest managers to effectively respond to climate change challenges and opportunities. These guidelines includes actions related to both climate change adaptation and mitigation and will be relevant to all types of forests, all management objectives and all types of managers. A survey, disseminated through international, regional and local forestry associations, networks and electronic list-serves, was conducted through which forest stakeholders provided their views and perceptions on factors that influence the ability of forest managers to respond to climate change. There were a total of 25 questions (Annex I) covering the following areas: impact of climate change on forests, importance of climate change, national climate change laws and regulations, climate change related adaptation and mitigation responses, capacities and support to undertake climate change adaptation and mitigation and, relevance of climate change guidelines for forest managers. Survey results are reported here.