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FAO, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Working With countries to mitigateand adapt to climate change throughsustainable orest management
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Working With countriesto mitigate and adapt toclimate change through
sustainable orestmanagement
Above: Sunset over orest-covered mountains, Province o Bac Kan, Viet Nam. © FAO/Joan Manuel Baliellas
Cover: A local market scene with a view o Mt Kilimanjaro, Moshi, Tanzania. © FAO/Simon Maina
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Forests support the livelihoods o more than a billion people living in
extreme poverty worldwide and provide paid employment or over
100 million people. They are home to more than 80 percent o the
world’s terrestrial biodiversity and help protect watersheds that are
critical or the supply o clean water to most o humanity. Climate
change, however, poses enormous challenges or orests and people.
Adaptation and mitigation are the two main responses to
climate change, mitigation seeking to address its causes and
adaptation aiming to reduce its impacts. In the orest sector:
mitigation strategies comprise reducing emissions rom deorestation;
reducing emissions rom orest degradation; increasing the role
o orests as carbon sinks; and product substitution, such as using
wood instead o ossil uels or energy and orest products in place o
materials whose manuacture involves high greenhouse gas emissions;
adaptation encompasses interventions to decrease the vulnerability
o orests and orest-dependent people to climate change.
Deploying sustainable orest management (SFM)1 can not only lessen the
risks posed by climate change, it can generate opportunities, such as
employment in orest restoration, orest conservation, wood production
and wood-based manuacturing; tenure reorm; and payments ororest-related services. Encouraging SFM and optimizing its role in
climate change mitigation and adaptation will oten require changes in
policies, strategies and practices. Delay in making such changes will increase
their cost and diculty and reduce the opportunities they may create.
Trees also play critical roles in land-use systems other than orests, such as
agriculture and the urban environment. Integrated landscape management
is a key approach in climate change adaptation and mitigation and willhelp ensure that adequate attention is paid to trees outside orests.
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1 SFM is described by the United Nations as “a dynamic and evolving concept that aims to maintain and enhance the economic, social and
environmental values o all types o orests, or the benet o present and uture generations”.
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Working at the oreront o climate change policy and practice, FAO, with
its team o more than 150 orestry proessionals, supports countries to
w, h chc ccy and c cy
v. Recognizing that climate change aects us all, FAO also
c among the orestry, agriculture, sheries and energy
sectors and between climate change and ood security policy-makers.
In addressing the issues associated with orests and climate change, FAO
works with many partners – ar too numerous to list here – at the global,
regional, national and local levels. Inormation on partners can be ound by
ollowing the various links given in this brochure.
STRENGTHENING CApACITIES IN CLIMATE CHANGE
FAO’S ROLE
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FAO is helping countries build capacity in the orest sector torespond to climate change, such as through FAO projectGCP/MON/002/NET in Mongolia. © S. Gallagher/FAO
The capacity o the orest sector to respond to
climate change varies greatly within and acrossregions, countries and communities. Practitioners
and decision-makers are not always equipped
with the tools, or have access to the inormation
and resources, to enable the most eective
responses to a changing climate. FAO is helping
to build the capacity o countries to respond to
climate change by:
collecting, analysing and disseminating
inormation to countries and stakeholders
through a wide range o publications, a monthlyelectronic newsletter dedicated to orests and
climate change, and the FAO website;
developing guidelines and convening
workshops to disseminate best practices and
exchange experiences;
implementing projects to build climate change
capacity at the national and local levels;
providing training materials on orests and
climate change;
encouraging and supporting regional
cooperation and networks or inormation
exchange.
The ollowing pages give more
detail on the ways in which FAO is
helping to build capacity to respond
to climate change.
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THIS pUBLICATION
This publication summarizes the work that FAO is undertaking, with its
partners, to assist countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change as it
relates to orests, trees and the people who depend on them. It is organized
in our o the ve main areas o FAO’s integrated approach to SFM:
MONITORING ANd ASSESSMENT
MANAGEMENT pLANNING ANd pRACTICES
pOLICy ANd GOvERNANCE
FOREST pROdUCTS, SERvICES ANd INdUSTRy .
The th main area o work, INTERSECTORAL COOpERATION ANd COORdINATION, cuts across the other our areas.
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The Serapium planted orest near the Suez Canal, Egypt. © FAO/Alberto Del Lungo
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Researchers or the national orest assessment in Viet Nam, supported by an FAO project, use laser technology devices to measuretree height and diameter. © FAO/Joan Manuel Baliellas
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MONITORING ANd ASSESSMENT
monitoring and assessment o orestsand climate change
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Inormation on orests is oten outdated, partialor subjective and lacks estimates o precision and
accuracy. Awareness is growing o the potential
roles o orests in mitigating and adapting to
climate change, making even more urgent
the need to improve orest monitoring and
assessment. With better inormation on the extent
and nature o orest resources, countries will be
better able to design and implement climate
change adaptation and mitigation policies,
improve overall land-use planning and estimaterates o carbon sequestration.
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helping to build institutional capacity by providing
technical assistance in countries and developing
tools to support the design and implementation o
multipurpose orest inventories and the provision o
measurable, reportable and veriiable orest carbon
estimates in the context o REDD+2 readiness;
producing manuals, reerence materials, toolkits andsotware applications (e.g. remote sensing tools and
allometric equations or estimating biomass and
carbon) to assist with monitoring and with national
orest and greenhouse gas inventories or the orest
and land-use sectors;
compiling, analysing and publishing inormation,
including through the Global Forest Resources
Assessment, on aspects o orests related to climate
change such as biomass and carbon stocks (ollowing
the guidance o the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change), orest area change, and the
incidence o orest pests and ire;
preparing resource materials such as National
forest monitoring systems: monitoring and
measurement, reporting and verification in the
context of REDD+ activities, which draw on
knowledge and experiences gained through theimplementation o the UN-REDD Programme;
providing technical support or the development o
robust, transparent, consistent and cost-eective
national orest monitoring systems that allow countries
to comply with the requirements o the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
promoting South–South cooperation and acilitating
inormation-sharing at the regional and global levels.
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g rc a:www.ao.org/orestry/ra
n m a: www.ao.org/orestry/ma
s m ChC p: www.ao.org/orestry/ma/76453
un-redd p: www.un-redd.org
A lab technician measures the carbon content o soil samplesat the Sokoine University o Agriculture, Tanzania, as part o an FAO project to conduct a national orest inventory.© FAO/Simon Maina
2 Reducing emissions rom deorestation and orest degradation
in developing countries and the role o conservation, sustainablemanagement o orests and enhancement o orest carbon stocks in
developing countries (REDD+) encourages developing countries to
contribute to climate change mitigation in the orest sector through
the ollowing activities: reducing emissions rom deorestation;
reducing emissions rom orest degradation; conservation o orest
carbon stocks; the sustainable management o orests; and the
enhancement o orest carbon stocks.
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Map o Yasuni National Park in the Amazon region o Ecuador, where, with the help o an FAO project, local communities arecombining conservation and sustainable land management practices to help secure one o most biologically diverse places on Earth.© Carlos Noguera
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Climate change could aect the growth o treesand the requency and intensity o res and the
incidence o orest pests, and it could increase
damage caused to orests by extreme weather
conditions such as drought, foods and storms.
Adaptive approaches to SFM will help to reduce
orest vulnerability, maintain orest productivity
and oster the adaptive capacity o orest-
dependent communities. Specic management
practices can also be adopted to help mitigate
climate change. The implications o changes toorest management practices or the ull suite o
orest values need to be weighed against the
likely benets.
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b: producing guidelines or orest management in the
ace o climate change;
identiying priority areas or orest-based climate
change mitigation and adaptation measures;
acting as an inormation hub or, and promoting,
aorestation, reorestation and assisted natural
regeneration through voluntary guidelines and ield
projects to increase carbon sequestration;
strengthening country capacities to mainstream
adaptive management approaches and practices such
as integrated ire management; identiying, testing, adapting and promoting
innovative orest management approaches and
techniques adapted to speciic contexts, including
through ield projects that serve as models or the use
o orests and trees outside orests in mitigating and
adapting to climate change;
promoting environmentally sound, economically
easible and socially acceptable orest operations,
including silvicultural treatments, reduced impact
logging, and speciic measures to promote orest
health and or the management o ragile ecosystems.
MANAGEMENT pLANNING ANd pRACTICES
Best practices or climate change
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
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a-z y: www.ao.org/orestry/aridzone
f: www.ao.org/orestry/remanagement
hh: www.ao.org/orestry/pests
p : www.ao.org/orestry/plantedorests
C Ch p: www.ao.org/orestry/climatechange
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A participant in an FAO project on assisted naturalregeneration plants a seedling on a hill slope in thePhilippines. © FAO/Noel Celis
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orests, trees outside orests, anddisaster risk management
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Forestry interventions can play a crucial role in themitigation o, and long-term rehabilitation in the
wake o, disasters, the requency o which could
increase in the ace o climate change. For example:
flooding: restoring damaged orest ecosystems
or re-establishing orest cover where it has
been cleared will increase protection against
uture loods;
landslides: re-establishing or increasing orest
cover on steep lands that have been aected by
landslides will reduce the risk o uture landslides;
storm surges: coastal orests (mangroves and
other coastal orests) can help protect coastal
inhabitants, inrastructure and productive land
against storm surges.
The orest sector can also assist in emergency
situations by, or example, undertaking salvage
logging o damaged trees; providing wood or
cooking, repairs and the construction o temporary
housing or disaster victims; and generating
employment in tree nurseries and planting schemes.
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developing a disaster risk reduction strategy based on
the Hyogo Framework or Action, a ten-year plan to
make the world saer rom natural hazards;
producing normative materials such as
> Fire management voluntary guidelines – an integrated
management approach to the development o
national policies that integrate ire prevention,
preparedness and suppression, and orest restoration
> New generation of watershed management
projects and programmes – a conceptual and
operational ramework that links watershed
management to sustainable mountain development
and orest hydrology
> Guide to implementation of phytosanitary standardsin forestry – developed by FAO and partners in
collaboration with the International Plant Protection
Convention with the aim o helping oresters to
minimize pest presence and spread while allowing
sae trade;
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
vy :www.ao.org/orestry/remanagement/46135
phyy : www.ao.org/orestry/oresthealthguide
Wh : www.ao.org/orestry/watershedmanagementandmountains
mv : www.ao.org/orestry/mangrove/3643
Villagers in Kigoma, Tanzania, perorm a controlled burn o tallgrass as part o an FAO project. © FAO/Simon Maina
acilitating access to comprehensive inormation onthe current and past extent o mangrove orests;
implementing projects to
> help ensure the inclusion o orest-sector actions
in land-use planning and the revision o sector
strategies to be more “disaster proo”
> support aorestation, reorestation, orest
restoration and orest protection in damaged areas
and areas at risk o disaster (e.g. on steep and
unstable slopes, in crucial watersheds, and along
rivers and coasts);
implementing projects to reduce climate-related
disaster risk, such as by encouraging community-
based ire management.
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orest Biodiversity and climate change
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Biodiversity encompasses the variety o existinglie orms, the ecological roles they perorm and
the genetic diversity they contain. It is the key to
orest ecosystem resilience and the adaptation
o orest species to climate change, and it will
also underpin the role o orests in mitigating
climate change. The continued loss o biodiversity,
however, weakens the ability o orest ecosystems
to respond to change. Inadequate inormation and
knowledge on the conservation and sustainable
use o biodiversity in the context o climatechange is an obstacle to identiying issues, needs
and priorities or action.
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strengthening the capacity o countries to adaptto climate change through the conservation and
sustainable management o biodiversity, including
wildlie, in protected areas and production orests;
assessing the world’s orest genetic diversity or
the preparation o the irst edition o The state of
the world’s forest genetic resources, which will be a
ramework or action to better address needs and
issues, including climate change;
promoting best practices in orest genetic resource
management, speciically in the areas o conservation,
exploration, testing, breeding and sustainable use;
supporting the collection o inormation related
to orest biodiversity through the National Forest
Monitoring and Assessment Programme;
assessing the impacts o climate change on wildlie
and protected areas, as highlighted in the publication
Wildlife in a changing climate;
helping to set up expert networks such as the Asia-
Paciic Forest Invasive Species Network and the Near
East Network on Forest Health and Invasive Species.
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
vy:www.ao.org/biodiversity/components/orests
a-pcfc ivv sc nwk: www.ao.org/asiapacic/rap/nre/links/invasives
n e nwk Hh ivv sc: www.ao.org/orestry/51295
W c : www.ao.org/orestry/wildlie
s h w' c c:
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A researcher rom the University o Kasangani conrms theidentity o a bird caught in a bird net in the Yoko Forest,Democratic Republic o the Congo, as part o FAO-supportedresearch. © FAO/Guilio Napolitano
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integrated landscape approaches inresponse to climate change
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Challenges related to climate change,
deorestation, ecosystem degradation,
desertication, the loss o biodiversity, ood
insecurity and poverty call or integratedapproaches to landscape management that
increase synergies among multiple land-use
objectives. In practice, however, the management
o orests is oten dealt with in relative isolation.
There is a clear need – and real scope – or the
integration o natural resource management
through improved multisectoral land-use
planning, especially in the ace o climate change.
Integrated approaches to landscape management
can increase synergies among multiple land-useobjectives, may require new policies, investments,
market incentives, institutions and capacities,
and should consider the perspectives, needs and
interests o all stakeholders and sectors.
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b: developing capacities and acilitating access to
knowledge, lessons learned and best practices,
including as part o the Global Forest Landscape
Restoration Partnership;
supporting multi-stakeholder processes or the
ormulation o guidance and policies conducive to
putting landscape approaches into practice;
supporting the development and implementation
o ield projects and programmes demonstrating
landscape approaches on the ground in di erent
contexts, such as through the Model Forest and
Mangroves or the Future initiatives;
encouraging multisectoral approaches, in partnership
with other FAO areas o exper tise;
supporting the assessment o trees outside orests to
improve data or decision-making;
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a-z y: www.ao.org/orestry/aridzone
dy v: www.ao.org/orestry/aridzone/restoration
sv m: www.ao.org/orestry/silvamed
g g W h sh sh iv:www.ao.org/partnerships/great-green-wall
th m ph: www.mountainpartnership.org
ay: www.ao.org/orestry/agroorestry
u - y: www.ao.org/orestry/urbanorestry and http://km.ao.org/urbanorestry
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A rural landscape in Ecuador. Among other things, FAOis helping to raise awareness o the global need or thesustainable management o mountain ecosystems andlandscape approaches to natural resource management.© Carlos Noguera
supporting urban and peri-urban orestry or resilientcities, including through the preparation o guidelines
or policy-makers;
promoting resilient landscapes and arms by
co-publishing Advancing agroforestry on the policy
agenda – a guide for decision-makers and promoting
their implementation;
raising awareness o the global importance and the
need or the sustainable management o mountain
ecosystems through the Mountain Partnership;
in drylands, developing and promoting, with partners,
the implementation o guidelines or building
landscapes resilient to global change;
supporting the Arican Union Commission and
13 partner countries to plan and implement the Great
Green Wall or the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative,
which aims to build the resilience o Arican drylands
to climate change and improve the ood security and
living conditions o people depending on them;
in collaboration with the Institut de recherche pour le
développement , the World Agroorestry Centre, CATIE
and CIRAD, preparing the thematic report Towards the
assessment of trees outside forests in the ramework o
the Global Forest Resources Assessment;
playing an active role in the Collaborative Partnership
on Mediterranean Forests on the adaptation o
Mediterranean orest landscapes to climate change;
promoting watershed natural resource management
as part o local development processes, or
example through the Integrated Natural Resources
Management Project in the Fouta Djallon Highlands,
and normative products.
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Community members meet in Oshampula, Namibia. FAO is supporting the involvement o all stakeholders in integrating climatechange issues in national orest policies. © FAO/Marguerite France-Lanord
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integrating climate change intonational orest policy rameWorks
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To ensure an ecient and coherent policyapproach to orests and climate change,
policy-makers need to integrate climate change
strategies and plans with national orest policy
rameworks and other sectors that aect orests.
Equally importantly, orest-based adaptation
and mitigation priorities should be refected
in national climate change strategies. Several
countries have identied the need or legal reorm
to implement national strategies on REDD+, and
orestry institutions may need to strengthen theirstructures, operations and capacities. Other major
processes with implications or the management
and governance o orests, such as those related
to orest law enorcement, governance and trade
(FLEGT), should also be taken into account.
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publishing Climate change for forest policy-makers,
providing an approach or integrating climate change
into national orest programmes in support o SFM,
which countries can adapt to national circumstances;
convening regional and national workshops toacilitate discussion between stakeholders on how to
address the impact o climate change on orests and
helping to initiate national orest policy reviews or
revisions to integrate climate change, with the support
o the Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing
Climate Programme and the ormer National Forest
Programme Facility (now the Forest & Farm Facility);
supporting countries to strengthen the capacity o
orestry institutions to enable them to better ollow
up on changed policies and strategies and to respond
more eectively to climate change;
through the European Union (EU)-FAO FLEGTProgramme, supporting developing countries to
improve policy, legal and regulatory rameworks or
addressing illegal logging and related trade;
supporting the integration o REDD+ and FLEGT
actions into national orest policy rameworks and
acilitating activities that can strengthen coordination
and synergies between these two processes, an
initiative involving the UN-REDD Programme and the
EU-FAO FLEGT Programme;
through the UN-REDD Programme in collaboration
with the United Nations Development Programme
and the United Nations Environment Programme,
supporting the development o robust and coherent
legal rameworks or REDD+ implementation at the
national level by
> assisting countries to increase understanding o
legal and regulatory aspects o REDD+ at the
national level
> supporting the participatory development
o coherent legal rameworks or REDD+
implementation
> contributing to the ormulation o recommendations
or legal reorms to implement REDD+ in response
to national priorities.
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C ch :www.ao.org/orestry/climatechange/64862
un-redd p: www.un-redd.org
n : www.ao.org/orestry/np
eu-ao legt p:www.ao.org/orestry/eu-fegt
dv w: www.ao.org/legal/development-law
y : www.ao.org/orestry/institutions
s m Ch Cp: www.ao.org/orestry/ma/76453
& cy: www.ao.org/partnerships/orest-arm-acility
FAO is convening regional and national workshops to acilitatediscussion between stakeholders on how to address climatechange and orests. © FAO
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orest tenure, and governanceassessment and monitoring
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The success o orest-based climate changeadaptation and mitigation in countries depends
largely on the quality o orest governance. A
widely accepted, comprehensive ramework or
identiying areas to be addressed and monitoring
the results o corresponding responses would
acilitate and harmonize eorts to improve
orest governance. Since conditions vary widely,
systems or orest governance assessment
and monitoring need to be tailored or each
country, taking into account a range o otherorest-related governance issues, including
orest law enorcement. Many countries have
also identied the need to address tenure,
which cuts across the various land-use
sectors. Thereore, integrated approaches
to the governance o tenure are needed.
FAO’s respOnse
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collaborating with partners to develop the Framework
for assessing and monitoring forest governance and
other normative material;
working with countries to strengthen capacities
and mechanisms or orest governance assessment,
including through the Participatory Governance
Assessments or REDD+ initiative, which acilitates
participatory processes to identiy and address key
governance issues related to REDD+ implementation; through the Sustainable Forest Management in a
Changing Climate Programme, supporting countries
to integrate the monitoring o orest governance with
national orest-related monitoring systems;
providing technical assistance through the UN-
REDD Programme on policy, legal, administrative
and operational aspects o tenure related to
REDD+, drawing on the Voluntary guidelines on the
responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries
and forests in the context of national food security ;
strengthening the capacity o countries to implement
orest-tenure reorms that guarantee the rights o local communities to own, manage and beneit rom
orest resources.
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vc :
www.ao.org/orestry/governance/monitoring/71390
un-redd p:www.un-redd.org
Vy h vc :www.ao.org/nr/tenure/voluntary-guidelines
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Ch : www.ao.org/orestry/tenure/china-reorm
s m ChC p: www.ao.org/orestry/ma/76453
Community members engage in a participatory ruralappraisal o local resources in Cambodia. FAO is helping tostrengthen the capacity o countries to implement orest-tenure reorms that guarantee the rights o local communitiesto own, manage and benet rom orest resources.© FAO/Kata Wagner
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orests, livelihoods and ood security in a changing climate
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Forests are oten critically important to theood insecure because they are one o the most
accessible productive natural resources available
to them. Forests and trees outside orests improve
the resilience o people to climate change by
acting as a protective resource and a saety net
and thus mitigating calamities. Small-scale orest-
based enterprises can increase rural income and
the resilience o rural communities to climate
change, and they can also respond quickly to local
climate change with adaptive approaches to SFM.
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deepening the understanding by stakeholders o the
importance o orests, trees and agroorestry systems
or the ood security, nutrition and livelihoods o rural
people and encouraging intersectoral collaboration;
supporting countries in the development o
orest policies and climate change strategies that
acknowledge and strengthen the role o orests and
trees in improving local livelihoods and ood security
as a response to climate change;
integrating orests and trees into climate-smart
agriculture strategies to encourage intersectoral
approaches or achieving the “triple win” o
adaptation, mitigation and ood security;
supporting countries to embrace participatory
and inclusive approaches that ensure increased
tenure rights, responsibilities and control over themanagement and use o orests by local communities,
smallholders, indigenous groups and amilies in a
gender-balanced way;
documenting the knowledge gained rom successul
experiences in the ormulation and implementation
o policies and strategies or rural development and
natural resource management and adaptation to a
changing climate, or example in Latin America and
the Caribbean;
promoting the development o community-based
orest enterprises, including by improving capacities
or the development and management o small andmedium orest enterprises and through normative
work such as Guidelines for institutionalizing and
implementing community-based forest management
in sub-Saharan Africa;
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
pcy y:www.ao.org/orestry/participatory
Cy- v:www.ao.org/orestry/enterprises
Cc:http://orestconnect.ning.com
Cy- -sh ac: www.ao.org/docrep/016/i2786e/i2786e00.htm
r v c : www.rlc.ao.org/es/programabrasilao/proyectos/politicas-agroambientales
Women in the Democratic Republic o the Congo sell orest-harvested mumbwa leaves (Gnetum africanum) in a localmarket. Small-scale orest-based enterprises can increaserural income and the resilience o rural communities toclimate change. © FAO/Guilio Napolitano
supporting the establishment o orest producerorganizations and their resilience in the ace o
changing opportunities created by, and challenges
posed by, climate change, including through the
Forest Connect alliance.
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Wooden houses and boat, Sabinsky district, Tatarstan Republic, the Russian Federation. © FAO/Vasily Maksimov
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orest products
Forests have always provided a multitude o products, but their role in mitigating climate
change has gone largely unnoticed. Wood-based
products are made o raw materials derived rom
the photosynthesis o trees and thereore enable
renewable and low-carbon cycles o production
and consumption and the long-term storage
o carbon in useul wood products. The orest
products industry aces a challenge, however, in
convincing people that wood products are better
or the climate and the environment than productsbased on non-renewable minerals and ossil uels.
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supporting the development o sustainable orest
industries, including> preparing orest industry opportunity studies,
assessing easibility and creating roadmaps or
ostering investment in sustainable orest industries
> developing, with the United Nations Economic
Commission or Europe (UNECE), an action plan
to maximize the contribution o the European and
North American orest sectors to a green economy,
including through their role in mitigating and
adapting to climate change
> helping micro, small and medium-sized orest
product enterprises to enter supply chains or
the building and housing industry
> producing data, analysis and communication
materials on the climate-related beneits o
wood-based products in sustainable production
and consumption, such as Impact of the global
forest industry on atmospheric greenhouse gases
> promoting, with partners, the use o wood to help
mitigate climate change, such as through the
international conerence The art and joy of wood
> encouraging the use o liecycle assessment as
a tool to evaluate the environmental impacts,
including on climate change, o wood products
such as construction timber or entire buildings,
and pellets or energy production
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
:www.ao.org/orestry/industries
s-c :www.ao.org/orestry/enterprises
W y:www.ao.org/orestry/energy
uneCe/ao y t sc: www.unece.org/orests.html
th jy w: www.artjoywood.org
Wooden houses under construction in Hunter village near theForest Breeding and Seed Centre in Leshoz Saba, Sabinskydistrict, Tatarstan Republic, the Russian Federation. FAOis producing data, analysis and communication materialson the climate-related benets o wood-based products insustainable production and consumption.© FAO/Vasily Maksimov
> helping countries to assess their current wood
energy situation and supporting policy-makers to
develop sound policies or sustainable wooduel
production and consumption
> acilitating communication and collaboration
between the energy and orest sectors;
collecting, analysing and disseminating wood energy
statistics and inormation;
supporting countries in ossil-uel substitution
through the modernization and eicient use o
wooduel, including by convening marketing
workshops and conducting economic analyses o
markets or processed wooduel.
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Economic viability is an important actor that mustbe considered in any measures to promote climate
change benets in the orest sector. In particular,
investments in climate change mitigation and
adaptation in orestry have to demonstrate
avourable returns when compared to alternative
investments in both orestry and other climate-
related interventions. The impacts o climate
change, as well as mitigation and adaptation
measures, also need to be considered in the wider
context o existing investments in orestry andthe orest industries and the markets or orest
products and services.
FAO’s respOnse
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b:
supporting policy development and capacity-buildingon orest inancing at the global, regional and national
levels through activities such as
> the Organization-led Initiative on Forest Financing
> the Heads o Forestry Dialogue on Forest Financing
> the Asia-Paciic Forest Policy Think Tank
> the integration o climate change unding into
national orest inancing strategies
> helping communities to access orest-related
voluntary carbon markets;
producing studies on the impacts o climate change
policies on trade and markets, including
> Bioenergy development: issues and impacts for
poverty and natural resource management (with
the World Bank)
> The orest-sector carbon markets chapter in the
Forest products annual market review (a UNECE-
FAO annual publication)
> European forest sector outlook study II (with UNECE)
> An assessment o the potential impacts o orest
product legality regulations and REDD+ on orest
products production and trade in the Asia-Paciic
region;
mOre inFOrmAtiOn
ecc fc:www.ao.org/orestry/nance
-c k : www.ao.org/orestry/outlook and www.unece.org/esos2
FAO generates inormation on the impacts o climate changepolicy on trade and markets, including or wood energy.© FAO/Korea Forest Service
analysing the costs and beneits o storing carbonin wood products compared to other orest-related
mitigation options (such as wood energy development
and REDD+) to see where the promotion o wood
products would be easible and would make a cost-
eective contribution to climate change mitigation
eorts in the orest sec tor.
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