[PCA] FAO publications for forest managers

De Angelis, Patricia patricia_deangelis at fws.gov
Tue Sep 17 10:04:52 CDT 2013


Below are links to two recent publications by the Food and Agriculture
Organization regarding climate change and forests.

*Climate Change Guidelines for Forest Managers: *(Read the Foreward, below)
(2013)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3383e/i3383e00.htm

*Climate change for forest policy-makers:*
*
An approach for integrating climate change
into national forest programmes in support
of sustainable forest management
*
(2011)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2429e/i2429e00.pdf

These publications provide further detail in an easy-to-follow format to
many of the maxims laid out in the *National Fish, Wildlife and Plants
Climate Adaptation Strategy:*
http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/strategy.php

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance
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Foreword
(From *Climate Change Guidelines for Forest Managers*)

Forests play a significant role in climate change mitigation by acting as
“sinks”, absorbing
carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass and soils, but, when
cleared or
degraded, they are also significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Forests, therefore,
are important components in strategies for adapting to climate change.
Without direct
management interventions, climate change is likely to jeopardize forest
ecosystem health,
resilience, productivity, biodiversity and carbon storage, and forest
degradation and loss
will continue to contribute to climate change.

The strong relationship between forests and climate implies that a dramatic
change
in one will influence the other. This feedback could be negative in some
situations and
positive in others. Sustainable forest management can help reduce the
negative effects
of climate change on forests and forest-dependent people, and it can help
ensure that
forests play their role in mitigating climate change. Forest management
decisions made
now will affect forests many decades into the future. Thus, it is important
for managers
to plan now for climate change.

FAO is publishing these guidelines to support forest managers in responding
to climate
change challenges and opportunities at the forest management unit level.
Articulating
specific goals and objectives for climate change can assist forest managers
to incorporate
climate change considerations into forest management plans and practices.
These guidelines
will also be of interest to a wider range of stakeholders concerned about
forests and
climate change.

The guidelines are complementary to the FAO publication Climate change for
forest
policy-makers, which sets out an approach for integrating climate change
into national
forest programmes to support sustainable forest management. Countries are
invited to
use the two documents and to adapt them, as necessary, to fit national and
subnational
circumstances.

Eduardo Rojas-Briales
Assistant Director-General
FAO Forestry Department
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