Technical & networking sessions slot 1

Ministry of the Environment, Republic of Poland

See the presentation on the Baltic Landscapes Project here

Over the last two decades, the National Forest Programmes (NFPs) have developed into influential tools contributing to the formulation, planning and implementation of forest policy at national and sub-national levels. Ever since their introduction, NFPs have been deemed to improve forest governance as well as to promote the participatory process for coordination of all forestry activities. By taking into account linkages between forestry and other sectors, the NFPs concept has pursued thinking beyond forest edge. Accordingly, addressing our time challenges posed by climate change requires  NFPs to be also integrated into wider strategies for sustainable land use.

The session will examine the potential of NFPs in response to climate change challenges relating to land uses. The focus will be on a role of NFPs as tools that recognize importance of the landscape approach as a framework for making equitable trade-offs between environmental, social and economic aspects of SFM and related forest functions. (A practical and operational platform to NFPs will be an example of the International Model Forest Network, which will present a way of translating the principles of sustainability into action). The panelists will exchange views on the best ways to catalyze the potential of NFPs by addressing the following questions:

Three key sector- and issue-specific questions the panel will address:

1. What are the main policy challenges and opportunities linked to NFPs role in addressing the landscape approach ?
2. Can NFPs address land uses in view of climate change adaptation sufficiently?
3. Can NFPs support investing in landscapes to tackle climate change challenges towards development of green economy?

Contact details: Marta Gaworska: marta.gaworska@mos.gov.pl

Speakers

• Matthias Schwoerer

  Head of the European and International Forest Policy Division, German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

• Peter Besseau

  Director, the International Affairs Division of Natural Resources, Canadian Forest Service, and Executive Director, International Model Forest Network (IMFN) Secretariat, Ottawa.

• Kazimierz Rykowski

  Professor of forestry in the Forest Research Institute

• Magnus Fridh

  Forest inventory and economic forest management planning

• Piotr Grygier

  Director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Poznan

Moderator

• Piotr Paschalis-Jakubowicz

  Head of the Department of Forest Utilization, the Warsaw University of Life Sciences