EU Policy Options for the Protection of European Forests Against Harmful Impacts

Event: Workshop
Date: 7 - 8 May 2009
Location: Brussels, Belgium

The workshop on "EU policy options for the protection of European Forests against harmful Impacts" provided valuable input for the development of policy options addressing to different extents the demands for a Community approach to forest protection in the EU.

The final report, submitted to the Commission in September 2009, contains in-depth analysis and evaluations of different policy options concerning how best to protect European forests at the Community level and concludes with different scenarios for future decision-making, taking feasibility and effectiveness of the options into account. On 8 October 2009 the results of the project were presented in Brussels at the Standing Forestry Committee (SFC), the representative board of EU Member States for forest policy.

Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment), International
Organizer: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Partner: University of Freiburg, Germany
Team: Timo Kaphengst

Sophie Herbert

Maria Berglund
Date: 7 - 8 May 2009
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Language: English
Project: Implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy: How to protect EU forests against harmful impacts?
Keywords: Events

Forest, threats, climate change, biodiversity, agriculture, biomass, Europe, policy coherence, policy integration, Europe

Europe

Attachments

Final report EU Policy options fro the protection of European forests against harmful impacts [pdf, 1.2 MB, English] (1.25 MB)

Expert Workshop Summary - Brussels May 2009 [pdf, English, 160 KB] (159.53 KB)

Workshop Binder [pdf, English, 2.4 MB] (2.3 MB)

Further Links

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Implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy: How to protect EU forests against harmful impacts?

Duration: Dec 2008 - Aug 2009
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment), International

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