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  • Climate Change Hub

    Contingency planning

     Contingency plans are pre-prepared plans describing when and how a land manager, business or organisation will deal with actual and potential threats to the forest and environment.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Considering forest and woodland design

     The design and planning of new woodlands provides an opportunity to incorporate resilience to climate change at the heart of forest management.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Choosing tree provenance

     The provenance of tree seed or stock refers to its geographical origins. Choosing the appropriate tree species and provenance for the site characteristics and local climate is a key management decision.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Carrying out thinning operations

     The intensity, frequency and timing of thinning operations can be modified to reduce select climate change risks.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Adapting infrastructure

     Forest infrastructure includes forest roads and rides, bridges, drainage systems, buildings and other facilities that enable management and access. Infrastructure plays a key role in the resilience of forests to climate change risks, such as flood water drainage and access for wildfire response.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Adaptation Measures

     In order to identify the most appropriate adaptation measures, forest and woodland managers should consider their management objectives alongside an assessment of climate change risks for their sites. Adaptation measures that will reduce the most immediate and greatest risks should be prioritised.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Mitigation

     The rapidly changing climate is being driven by the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere (chiefly carbon dioxide, CO₂, methane, CH₄ and nitrous oxide, N₂O).
  • Climate Change Hub

    Climate change

     Our climate is changing, and even with strenuous global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the UK’s climate will continue to change for decades.
  • Climate Change Hub

    Adaptation

     Adaptation describes the process of adjustment to the actual or expected effects of climate change, in order to reduce harm or exploit opportunities.
  • Climate Change Hub

    About

     The changing climate will have a wide range of impacts across the UK, including to our trees and woodlands, including warmer temperatures and altered rainfall patterns.
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