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Background and challenges
Climate change can have great impacts on growth, health and
biodiversity of boreal forest ecosystems, and the positive and
negative effects will have influences on the whole society. Therefore,
apart the mitigation actions, it is important to take actions to
adapt the forest sector to the anticipated changes.
The mitigation
and adaptation actions will reflect on the international policy and
the course of the forest sector, with increasing needs in future
to combine the forest policy decision making as part of climatic
issues.
Aims of the programme
This research program aims at producing information of the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems. Studies will be conducted to understand the forest and environmental policy actions and means that help in mitigating and adapting to climate change. The aim is that the knowledge produced in the program can be incorporated in the software developed in Metla to be used as practical forest planning tools by policy makers, foresters and forest owners. The research programme produces information in support of the greenhouse gas reporting dealing with forests, for Finland’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change, IPCC and the National Forest Programme. |
FUNDING AND COLLABORATION
The programme is funded by Metla, EU, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Academy of Finland and the Metsämiesten Säätiö Foundation.
The research projects of the program have collaboration with researchers from the Finnish Universities (U. of Helsinki, U. of Joensuu, U. of Jyväskylä, U. of Oulu) and research institutions (Finnish Meteorological Institute) and from abroad.
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Vapaavuori, Elina
The Finnish Forest Research Institute
Suonenjoki Office, Juntintie 154, FI-77600 SUONENJOKI, FINLAND,
phone: +358 29 532 4888
fax: +358 29 532 2103
e-mail: elina.vapaavuori @ metla.fi
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