Webinar: Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in EU international partnerships

Objectives of the course

The EU has long supported the protection, restoration, and sustainable management and use of the world’s forests. More recently, the European Commission has stepped-up this ambition towards partner countries in the context of the external dimension of the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork the Biodiversity Strategies, the Communication ‘Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests’ as well as the legislative proposal aimed at minimising the risk of deforestation and forest degradation. Building on FLEGT VPA experiences, the DG INTPA is now expanding engagement with partner countries through Forest Partnerships.

The specific objective of this Webinar is to enhance participants’ knowledge and understanding of:

• the dominant forest management models, namely (a) “industrial” forest concessions and (b) community forests;
• definition, benefits and opportunities for improving the sustainability of both forest management modalities;
• the role the EU Commission in promoting sustainable forest management in partner countries – with a focus on lessons-learned and ambitions for the the 2021-2027 programming cycle.

Content

The webinar will cover:

• Positioning of sustainable forest management within the EU cooperation policy context.
• Description of the main challenges to the forest sector, as well as opportunities for strengthening the forest sector.
• Lessons learned from corporate (industrial) logging concessions and from community forestry.
• Ambition for corporate (industrial) logging concessions and from community forestry.
• An exchange of experiences and ideas among participants

Target audience

Open to all EU staff working in EU Delegations or Headquarters. In particular those who are not working in environment and climate change sectors are encouraged to participate.

Registrations

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Materials

The webinar presentations and additional documents are available in the section below.

Click on the following links to watch the videos:

Sustainable Forest management – Management of tropical production forests

Community forestry – Management of tropical production forests by local communities

Cooperativa Mista de Flona Tapajos – Mixed cooperative of the Tapajos National Forest

Corporate Forest concessions

Precious Woods

Why and how do private concession for community forests contribute to SFM ?

Forests for the future facility

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