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Climate Smart Forestry
The term ‘Climate Smart Forestry‘ (CSF) was first introduced in Nabuurs et al. (2015), in which a more innovative and integrated approach to mitigating, adapting to and maintaining the productivity of Europe’s forests was presented on a local scale. This was in response to the usual global approach to forest mitigation measures, which only addressed afforestation, reforestation and deforestation.
CSF firmly integrates climate objectives into the forestry framework, building upon three main objectives:
- reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions;
- adapting to and building resilience to climate change, and
- sustainably increasing regionally specific forest productivity and incomes.
To learn about CSF and exchange views and experiences, Wageningen University & Research, together with the European Forest Institute (EFI), established a research network comprising 26 partner institutes. One of the aims is to share experiences of pilots in the field. This page displays some of these pilots.
Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Philippe Delacote, David Ellison, Marc Hanewinkel, Marcus Lindner, Martin Nesbit, Markku Ollikainen and Annalisa Savaresi. 2015. A new role for forests and the forest sector in the EU post-2020 climate targets. From Science to Policy 2. European Forest Institute.
CSF experiments and third-party projects map
On this map you find climate smart forestry experiments and third-party projects from across Europe.
See also www.climatesmartforestry.eu
Contacts: gert-jan.nabuurs@wur.nl
Participating institutes
Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Šumarski fakultet
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Forest Research
United Kingdom
Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije
Slovenia
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
University of Belgrade
Serbia
Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
Romania
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Portugal
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Norway
Wageningen University & Research
Netherlands
Climate Smart Forestry
Netherlands
Latvian State Forest Research Institute
Latvia
Land Life
Netherlands
Università degli Studi di Milano
Italy
Università degli Studi del Molise
Italy
Libera Università di Bolzano
Italy
International Forestry Students’ Association
Germany
Coillte
Ireland
Natural Resources Institute Finland
Finland
European Forest Genetic Resources Programme
Spain
Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario
Spain
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Spain
Agricultural University of Athens
Greece
European Forest Institute
Finland
Klimaskov Fonden
Denmark
Technische Universität Munchen
Germany
Universität Freiburg
Germany
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Czech Republic
Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research Monitoring and Mapping Solutions
Czech Republic
European Commission
Belgium
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Switzerland
ETH Zürich
