NBForest - Climate change

Climate change adaptation in Swedish forestry: Driving forces, risks and opportunities

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:08:31 +0000

Facts & Reviews

19.11.2015

Original source: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

This synthesis brief summarizes key insights from SEI’s research on climate change adaptation in Swedish forestry as part of the 2008–2015 Mistra-SWECIA programme.

Managing Forests to Promote Environmental Services

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:19:35 +0000

Facts & Reviews

16.11.2015

A few weeks ago, on 03-05 November, the Centre of Advanced Research on Environmental Services from Nordic Forest Ecosystems (CAR-ES II), funded by Nordic Forest Research (SNS) 2011-2015, arranged and hosted a 3-day conference that had a focused theme on Managing Forests to Promote Environmental Services.

As summarized at the conference, amongst key environmental services provided by the Nordic and Baltic forests are carbon sequestration, water protection and biodiversity - all linked to the quality of soil:

Sustainability: Five steps for managing Europe's forests

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:20:42 +0000

Facts & Reviews

23.10.2015

The current state of affairs for forests across Europe: new productive forests are gaining momentum and expanding the overall forest area; however, the health and productivity of existing tree stands are loosing their momentum due to age, climatic damage as well as human influence.

Carbon Sequestration: Managing Forests in Uncertain Times

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:09:14 +0000

Facts & Reviews

30.09.2015

The international forest debate regarding pathways to achieve sustainability in forest management continues to be a point of contention and complexity. The division amongst forest sector stakeholders centers around those actors who focus on the carbon storing capacity of standing forests and those who are preoccupied with the carbon sequestration capacity of growing, productive forests.

Bioeconomy offers Europe and Russia opportunity for long-term strategic cooperation

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 07:45:04 +0000

News

23.09.2015

Original source: European Forest Institute

A window of opportunity has opened for Europe and Russia to develop strategic partnerships that break links between economic growth and social and environmental harm. That opportunity is called bioeconomy.

The time is right. Russia’s economy is at a crossroads. It depends heavily on oil exports and has been hit hard by falling oil prices. But this is not the only reason for Russia to follow the bioeconomy path.

Forest in the Lab: New Film Explains Genetic Monitoring of Forests

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:18:34 +0000

News

02.09.2015

Original article: Biodiversity International

Bioeconomy: a new form of business making? Views from Austria

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:40:27 +0000

Blog

31.08.2015

Corn plantation landscape around Freiburg area. Photo: Alex Giurca

Authored by Alex Giurca
Original blog post: Bioeconomy - What's in it for us?

Air Pollution in the Nordic Countries from Biomass Burning in Eastern Europe: A Policy Brief

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:12:56 +0000

Facts & Reviews

19.08.2015

Authored by Per Erik Karlsson, Lars Hole, Hans Tømmervik & Elena Kobets

Original source and complete policy brief: NordPub

New study finds plants grown under higher levels of carbon dioxide are lower in protein

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:28:29 +0000

News

25.06.2015

Original article: SIANI

The Global Seed Vault to host tree seeds

Alex — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:04:39 +0000

News

09.02.2015

The vulnerability of the world’s genebanks was the motivativation behind establishing a global seed vault. Intended as a backup storage facility, this vault stores duplicates (backups) of seed samples from the world’s crop collections representing an insurance policy for future generations to overcome challenges such as climate change and growing populations. Until now it supported millions of seeds representing every important crop variety available in the World today.