> FORWARDS at the Forest Dialogue in Basel: connecting forest monitoring, science and practice
News release
– 17-09-2026
The project presents its flagship monitoring and evaluation tool, the ForestWard Observatory, to the forest community and gathers their feedback.
– 29-07-2026
Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is gaining attention as forests are increasingly expected to support climate action while remaining resilient, biodiverse, and socially relevant. This review shows that the concept brings mitigation, adaptation, and the social dimension into a single discussion, but it is understood in different ways across the scientific literature.
– 14-05-2026
Forests play a crucial role in absorbing CO₂ from the atmosphere — but this capacity cannot be taken for granted. A new study published in Functional Ecology (Etzold et al., 2026) draws on 30 years of continuous forest monitoring at 18 sites across Switzerland, spanning elevations from lowland forests at 500 m up to mountain forests near the treeline at almost 1,900 m. The result is one of the most comprehensive long-term assessments of how climate change is affecting forest growth in Central Europe.
– 07-05-2026
At the end of March, project partner UNIMOL was invited to an event discussing the development of the first Action Plan for the UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserve in Alto Molise.
– 05-05-2026
FORWARDS will participate in the upcoming EEA/JRC LULUCF Workshop, organised by the European Environment Agency and the Joint Research Centre, taking place on 27–28 May in hybrid format at the EEA headquarters in Copenhagen.
– 30-04-2026
On 23 April 2026, an online meeting officially launched the FORWARDS third-party projects FAB (Forest for All Beings), FoResil, Gigantes Verdes, LIVING FORESTS and Root Connection.
