Climate change challenges ahead: how should the forestry sector respond?

 

Climate change: Impacts on UK forests - Chapter 13
By Tim Rollinson

In November 2000 the Government published 'Climate Change: The UK Programme' which sets out the strategic approach that the Government and the devolved administrations will take to tackling climate change. Forestry is covered in both the main text and in the contributions from the devolved administrations. The summary to the Programme lists ‘protection and enhancement of forests’ among the policies to deliver mitigation of climate change.

This chapter of Bulletin 125 expands on some of the implications for forestry and the global concerns about climate change.

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