ThinkForest - Navigating through the EU forest-related objectives

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organisation, established by European States. EFI conducts research and provides policy support on forest-related issues, connecting knowledge to action.EFI has 30 Member Countries, and c. 130 member organizations from 42 different countries working in diverse research fields. The headquarters of the Institute are in Joensuu, Finland, and its other main offices are in Barcelona, Bonn and Brussels.

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Join this ThinkForest event to explore key insights from the study on EU forest policy objectives!

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Forests stand at the intersection of many of the European Union’s key ambitions — from achieving climate neutrality and conserving biodiversity to ensuring energy security and fostering economic competitiveness. Forest governance within the EU is therefore complex, as numerous policy domains intersect with forests. Over the past three decades, a diverse array of policy instruments — both legally binding and non-binding — has emerged to address these interlinkages. A new study forming the basis of this ThinkForest event maps forest-related objectives across 90 EU policy documents, taking the 2021 EU Forest Strategy as its starting point. The analysis identifies 15 key policy objectives and reveals how forests are increasingly portrayed as multifunctional allies in tackling Europe’s major challenges. While the European Green Deal has strengthened environmental and climate ambitions, economic productivity remains firmly embedded within EU forest policy. However, forests, their management practices, and ownership structures vary widely across Europe. In the light of increasing forest disturbances, the need to adapt forests to the future and increase their resilience while maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and their carbon sink, it will be instrumental to understand how all of these EU objectives can be achieved simultaneously. Our ThinkForest event will:<ul><li>present key insights from the study on EU forest policy objectives</li><li>discuss opportunities for better policy coherence and governance integration</li><li>foster dialogue on challenges and opportunities for addressing trade-offs in implementation</li></ul> Please note that this is only an in-person event and there will be no online streaming. Programm<ul><li>17:00 - 17:05 Opening Words Helga Pülzl, Assistant Director, European Forest Institute</li><li>17:05 - 17:25 Green Ambition &amp; Economic Competitiveness: Mapping EU Forest Objectives Dr. Doris Wydra, Senior Scientist, University of Salzburg, Austria</li><li>17:25 - 18:25 Panel discussion: EU forest policy governance: challenges and opportunities - Moderator: Sarah Adams, European Forest Institute - Christian Holzleitner, European Commission, DG Clima - Gerfried Gruber, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management, Austria - Marta Gaworska, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union - Doris Wydra, Senior Scientist, University of Salzburg, Austria</li><li>18:25 - 18:30 Closing remarks Helga Pülzl, Assistant Director, European Forest Institute</li></ul><ul><li>18:30 - 19:30 Networking with cocktails and canapes</li></ul>

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