state of europe’s forests 2011 trends and challenges
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State of Europe’s Forests 2011Trends and challenges
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State of Europe’s Forests 2011
• Provides a comprehensive and fact-based picture of forests and sustainable forest management in Europe
• The best ever information on Europe’s forests
• Addresses policy challenges
• Jointly prepared by FOREST EUROPE, UNECE and FAO
• Based on input from 400 correspondents and experts, 60 authors and 27 national and international organisations all over Europe
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Forest area:1,000,000,000 ha (25% of world total)
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Forest cover: 45% of total land area (32% without Russia)
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Change of forest area: +0.8 million ha/year
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Share of public and private forest, 2005~30 million private holdings
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Selected positive findings
• 870 million tons of CO2 removed from the atmosphere
annually
• The area of protected forests is expanding
• Forest management practices increasingly promote the
conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
• Most forests have a management plan
• About 1% of gross domestic product
• 4 million jobs in the forest sector
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Ratio of felling to net annual increment, 2010
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C/N ratio in forest soils
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Policies, institutions and instruments
• Increasing influence of international processes and other sectoral policies: climate change, energy, biodiversity and agriculture
• Policy objectives and instruments have been adapted in most policy areas in more than half the reporting countries since 2007
• National policy objectives have changed, notably on o biodiversityo carbon balance o production and use of wood o land use and forest area
• Lack of coherence with other policy areas still a challenge
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Many countries have explicit objectives on the forest related carbon balance
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Is forest management in Europe sustainable?• An experimental method, based on data provided for the
State of Europe’s Forests 2011 report, provided promising initial results
• For most country groups and criteria, the results are
satisfactory• Some threats to forests and sustainable forest
management were identified
• The method should be further developed and improved
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Threats to forests
• Excessive nitrogen deposition putting forest soils at risk
• Most damage caused by insects and diseases
• Area burnt by forest fires not falling
• Fragmentation of the forest landscape is increasing
• In a very small number of countries, forest area itself is
falling due to external pressures and fellings are higher
than increment
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Challenges to forest management
• Workforce is shrinking, old, too many accidents
• In a few countries, net revenue of forest enterprises is
negative
• Information problems, especially in South-West and
South-East Europe
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Challenges for forest policies
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation: find the right path and maintain sustainable forest management
• Mobilise enough wood for energy
• Reconcile biodiversity goals with other societal demands
on forests, for example provision of renewable material
and energy
• Use the potential of the forest sector to foster green
economy
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All those who worked on the State of Europe’s Forests 2011 hope that the report will be used to
formulate sound and effective future policies
More information is available on: www.foresteurope.orgwww.unece.org/timber