Forests have four major roles in climate change: they currently contribute about one-sixth of global carbon emissions when cleared, overused or degraded; they react sensitively to a changing climate; when managed sustainably, they produce woodfuels as a benign alternative to fossil fuels; and finally, they have the potential to absorb about one-tenth of global carbon emissions projected for the first half of this century into their biomass, soils and products and store them - in principle in perpetuity More
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Summary of the Doha Climate Change Conference - 27 November - 7 December 2012
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FAO, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. WORKING WITH COUNTRIES TO MITIGATE AND ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
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 forests, trees and the people who depend on them. It is organized in four of the five main areas of FAO's integrated apparoch to Sustainable Forest Management:
Monitoring and assessment
Management planning and practices
Policy and governance
Forest products, services and industry
The fifth main area of work, Intersectoral cooperation and coordination, cuts across the other four areas
