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Forests and Climate Change Working Paper 10

Author: Simmone Rose
Date: Rome 2012
Abstract: This document is part of the publications series produced by the Forest and Climate Change Programme of FAO. The programme seeks to provide timely information and tools to a wide range of stakeholders, with the ultimate objective of assisting countries’ efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change through actions consistent with sustainable forest management. FAO is currently developing guidelines to assist forest managers to understand, assess and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. The guidelines will be applicable globally and will be relevant to all types of forests (boreal, temperate, and tropical), to all management objectives (production, conservation, protection and multipurpose) and to all types of managers (public, private and community). This document was written to facilitate the preparation of the guidelines. The objective was to determine if and how forest management is changing or could change in order to respond effectively to climate change challenges and mitigation opportunities. It reviews the current understanding of climate change impacts on forests and forest management, assesses the challenges that these bring to forest managers at the forest management unit level and provides examples of how forest managers have responded to these challenges. The document also identifies what is needed to create an enabling policy, legal and institutional environment that would support forest managers’ efforts in mitigation and adaptation. The document provides us with a useful basis of information for the development of the guidelines, but we also hope that it will be valuable to others in their efforts to make climate change adaptation and mitigation a reality on the ground.
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