In climate-smart forestry, forests and peatlands should provide livelihoods for their owners, but also sequestrate carbon, safeguard biodiversity, and provide recreation.
In climate-smart forestry, forests and peatlands should provide livelihoods for their owners, but also sequestrate carbon, safeguard biodiversity, and provide recreation. At the same time, they should adapt to the changing climate and to the increased risk for damage, while also producing more wood to replace fossil materials and fossil energy.
The level of ambition in such forestry is high.
“It is quite a challenge to sustainably and simultaneously safeguard different interests in forest management and forest use. Climate-smart forestry does not provide a single model for all; instead, different models must be tailored to temporal and local conditions,” Professor of Silvicultural Sciences Heli Peltola says.
“As climate change progresses, I don’t think the annual increase in temperature will stop at two or so degrees in Finland over this century, because our temperature increase is higher than the global average. In Finland, we should prepare for the annual mean temperature to rise by up to three or four degrees.”
Read more at: University of Eastern Finland
