Climate-smart forest management caught between a rock and a hard place

Key message The UNFCCC COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh confirmed that climate policies too heavily rely on climate mitigation by forests rather than on de-fossilizing the energy system, to keep global warming within the safe 1.5 °C. Reliable mitigation by forests would imply healthy productive forests wel...

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Published in:Annals of forest science. Vol. 80; no. 1; p. 43
Main Authors: Muys, Bart, Messier, Christian
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 01.12.2023
Springer Nature (since 2011)/EDP Science (until 2010)
BMC
Subjects:
Adaptation
Assisted migration
Biomedical and Life Sciences
climate
Climate change
Conservation
Disturbance
energy
Environment
forest management
Forestry
Forestry Management
forests
Life Sciences
Mitigation
Opinion Paper
Tree Biology
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Wood Science & Technology
Mitigation
Climate change
Invasiveness
Disturbance
Conservation
Assisted migration
Tree diversity
Adaptation
Exotic
ISSN:1297-966X, 1286-4560, 1297-966X
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Summary:Key message The UNFCCC COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh confirmed that climate policies too heavily rely on climate mitigation by forests rather than on de-fossilizing the energy system, to keep global warming within the safe 1.5 °C. Reliable mitigation by forests would imply healthy productive forests well adapted to climate change, and this is no longer the case. The current trend in loss of forest vitality shows that the adaptation of forests is urgently needed, but measures are being insufficiently adopted by foresters on the ground. In this letter, we wonder about the reasons for this inaction paralyzing climate-smart forestry and propose a way forward using a diversity-based no-regret approach in line with available knowledge.
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ISSN:1297-966X
1286-4560
1297-966X
DOI:10.1186/s13595-023-01208-5