News!  

The Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change presented its global assessment report on "Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change" and the policy brief "Making forests fit for climate change" at the 8th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests. Electronic versions of the assessment report and the policy brief are available for download at http://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/.

Forests and climate change

The period 2008-2009 will be crucial for the forest sector to come up with a strategy and a plan for action to address forests and climate change in order to implement intergovernmental decisions and to facilitate discussions and negotiations on the issue, including post-2012 regime. In collaboration with related disciplines, the forest sector needs to translate into action the pertinent decisions of UNFF, including the

Non Legally Binding Instrument  and the UNFCCC decisions reached in Bali.

 

The CPF strategic framework for forests and climate change

(Launched in Poznan - UNFCCC COP 14 - 5 December 2008)

Forest Day 2 - Pozan - 6 December 2008

"Strategic framework for forests and climate change - A proposal by the CPF for a coordinated forest-sector response to climate change". 


Executive summary 

Joint efforts

Strategic framework
CPF members have agreed to initiate a concerted effort to draw a strategic framework for the response to the climate change agenda (a meeting of senior representatives of CPF member organizations on Coordinated Forest Sector Response to the Climate Change Agenda was hosted by FAO in April 2008 in Rome).
The strategic framework aims at reaching achievable objectives, leading to and emphasizing practical action on the ground and reportable outcomes. CPF members agreed on the process to prepare the strategic framework and on its broad scope, including mitigation and adaptation aspects and the needs related to Reduce Emission from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD). Bringing together in this strategy their collective experience in the field of forestry, CPF members will also assist countries in their preparations for the post-2012 climate regime. The summary of this strategic framework is available under NEWS on this page! The full document of strategic framework will be launched in Poznan early December 2008.

Activities of the CPF

The Expert Panel on Adapttion of Forests to Climate Change
The Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change is the first thematic panel established under the CPF Global Forest Expert Panels initiative, led by IUFRO. The Expert Panel was formed by GFEP in late 2007 to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the state of knowledge regarding the impacts of climate change on forests, their implications for human wellbeing, and the options for adaptation. The Expert Panel met three times during the course of 2008. The assessment report "Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change" as well as the policy brief "Making forests fit for climate change" are available for download from Friday, 17 April 2009.

Innovative dialogue
The UNFCCC Secretariat hosted in Bonn on 14-15 February 2008 a CPF strategic dialogue (Summary report CPF21) between CPF members on the ways to advance some of the key and complex issues that CPF members constituencies are facing in implementing the Forestry-related international agreements.


CPF Strategic Dialogue - Bonn 15 February 2008CPF Strategic Dialogue - Bonn 15 February 2008

During this meeting CPF members agreed:

  • to conduct a mapping exercise to assess existing and planned activities as a first step in identifying gaps and potential for greater collaboration;
  • to contribute to the UNFCCC Web Platform on REDD;
  • to establish links with networks outside CPF, and share information through GFIS and other tools;
  • to address adaptation and forests as well as forest degradation;
  • to strengthen national cooperation among the National Forest Programmes, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and National Action Plans for Combating Desertification;
  • to contribute views for consideration in the forthcoming Secretary-General’s Report on Forests and Climate Change to be prepared by UNFFS for UNFF8.

    CPF members webpages on climate change and forests

    Last update: April 2009