Focus on Arts and Ecology

Dear Climate-L readers,

On the occasion of COP 23, under the Presidency of Fidji, taking place in Bonn (Germany) from the 6th to 17th of November, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food is pleased to invite you to the following event:

« The sustainable forest management in the face of climate change: What challenges? What actions? »

Tuesday, November the 7th from 3pm to 4:30pm
at the French Pavilion (location A5 - Bonn Zone)

The Paris Agreement renewed the importance of forests at a key element in tackling climate change, on which they are highly dependent. At global level, forests absorb a third of anthropogenic greenhouse gases emissions. The way forests are managed affects their role as carbon sinks and has a direct impact on climate both in the short and long term.

A panel of experts incuding researchers, managers, investors, decision-makers and environmentalists will discuss the new challenges of sustainable forest management in the face of climate change. Between sequestration and substitution, adaptation and mitigation, which forest management should be given priority in order to combat climate change effectively? What trade-offs should we make about forest action? And how do we get all the actors to dialogue together?

To encourage discussion, this event will bring together the following speakers:

Julie Marsaud (France Nature Environnement, FNE)
Jean-François Dhôte (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA)
Benoït Leguet (Institute for Climate Economics, I4CE)
Salvatore Martire (Association of State Forests in Europe, EUSTAFOR)
Laura Nikinmaa (European Forest Institute, EFI)
Giacomo Grassi (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, JRC)
Karin Simonson (Natural Resources Canada, NRCAN)

Organised by the French Ministries of Europe and Foreign Affairs, of Ecological and Inclusive Transition and of Agriculture and Food, this event is open to all accredited persons under COP 23.

Best regards

Florian Claeys