Virtual conference: A roadmap to EU forest resilience - Tackling climate change and forest disturbances
19.04.2024
Forests play a vital role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Yet, climate change is increasingly causing extreme weather conditions, and damages such as wildfires, windstorms and floods are harming forests all over Europe.
To address these challenges, the European Commission introduced the Forest Monitoring Law in November 2023, a regulation on a monitoring framework for resilient European forests.
More resilient and diverse forests are essential to cope better with environmental disturbances and to adapt to climate change. While stakeholders generally support this proposal, some find it vague and call for stronger initiatives to achieve forest resilience.
Join this Euractiv Virtual Conference to discuss how to make EU forests more resilient against climate change and disturbances.
Panellists:
- Elena Visnar Malinovska, Head of Unit, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change, DG CLIMA, European Commission
- Florian Marin, Member Workers' Group, European Economic and Social Committee
- Sydney Vennin, European Forest Campaigner, Fern
- Marcus Lindner, Principal Natural Scientist, European Forest Insitute
- Roberto Stelstra, Policy Officier, EUSTAFOR
- Santiago Sabaté, Director of Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences (BEECA), Universitat de Barcelona