Climate change

Mediterranean forests confront certain vulnerabilities in the face of climate change, including threats from drought and wildfire. However, forests are also an important tool in global climate mitigation strategies: they play a key role in maintaining a humid mesoclimate and rainfall recycling, as well as in carbon storage, and forest resources that could be essential in providing renewable solutions to shift our reliance away from fossil-based resources.

Spanish forests: key in fighting climate change and for corporate climate neutrality

The "Forestry Climate Solutions: Spanish forests, carbon sinks for corporate climate neutrality" event was held in Madrid on 16 March. Experts and companies gathered...

Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards

A special edition of the Medadapt Awards has just been launched, on the theme of adaptation of the buildings and the construction sector. The...
The Role of Forests in Countering Climate Change

The Role of Forests in Countering Climate Change – Perspectives from North and South

The Embassy of Finland in Spain, together with the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of Spain, and the European Forest...

IUFRO World Congress 2024: Call for Abstracts

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the City of Stockholm in close collaboration with the Nordic and Baltic partners, welcome delegates from all...
ash dieback

EUFORGEN Webinars: ash dieback and its impact on the species’ genetic diversity

Rising temperatures across Europe, extreme weather events, higher fire risk, or increased vulnerability to biotic disturbances such as pests and diseases are some of...
Forest near Viterbo

CMCC offers a Post Doc/Researcher position in climate change and forestry

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is a scientific research center that works on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, and the...
Wind and Trees 2023

Wind and Trees 2023 – The future is uncertain: wind resilient forests in a...

The 10th International Wind and Trees Conference will be hosted by the IUFRO Working Party 8.03.06, at Villa Bolasco in Castelfranco Veneto, province of...
ResAlliance group photo

Landscape resilience in the Mediterranean

Faced with the growing impacts of climate change, our landscapes are increasingly vulnerable. Therefore, it is crucial to increase landscape resilience and understand its...
Turkish natural landscape

Calibrating bioclimatic tolerance levels for three key Eastern Mediterranean species

Our first article from a planned series of 3 articles came out from Biodiversity and Conservation this fall: "Simulating the potential forest ranges in...
Participants at the meeting in Freising, Germany.

European projects join forces to tackle the impact of climate change on forests

Over 30 researchers from 8 EU-funded projects are working together to come up with strategies to fight climate change and deal with its impacts...

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Local community participation and volunteerism in wildfire area management: a systematic...

The study contributes to the development of the perception of what kind of fire management approach can be developed by considering the socio-economic structures...

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