Pro-active management of forests to combat climate change driven risks

This is a report from the workshop on Pro-active Management of Forests to Combat Climate Change Driven Risks: Policies and measures for increasing forest resilience and climate change adaptation, which was held on September 3-4, 2019 in Istanbul in the framework of the FOREST EUROPE Work Programme 2016-2020.

In order to promote adaptation of forests and forest sector to the impacts of climate change, the workshop aimed to:

• exchange views on potential adaptation options for increasing resilience of the European forests and forest sector in the view of the projected impacts of climate change
• discuss existing adaptation policies and their possible future development in forest sector and beyond at different levels, including needs for coherence with related policies and policy objectives in other policy domains
• discuss feasibility, reliability and effectiveness of adaptation measures based on presentation of the existing examples under different climatic conditions across Europe promoting shift from emergency response to prevention of disturbances and so enhancing forest resilience
• understand success factors and challenges in the implementation of adaptation measures and effective disturbance risk management practices

The key messages and recommendations are compiled in this publication with the outcomes of the workshop and further elaboration by the FOREST EUROPE Expert Group at its fourth meeting held back to back with the workshop.