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Joint Statements | Forest Directors' Meeting in Hungary

During the EU Forest Directors General’s Meeting in Hungary, CEPF, Copa-Cogeca and Eustafor presented three joint statements on the topics discussed: Vulnerability of forests under climate change; Carbon storage in forests and wood products ; Innovation directions in forest.

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The State of the World’s Forests 2024

FAO has published its 2024 report on The State of the World’s Forests. It explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.

CEPF Feedback on the EC proposal for an EU Forest Monitoring Framework

While CEPF supports the general principle of increasing resilience of European forests, the real added value of this proposal and the actual means it offers for resilient of EU forest are tenuous. The question of a need of EU action and real added value of this proposal remains.

Forest fires’ report: 2022 marked the second-worst fire season in recent history

The European Commission Joint Research Center’s (JRC) latest report “Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2022” was published on 22 November 2023. It highlights 2022 as the second-worst fire season in recent history.

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Press Release | EU Forest Monitoring: will this data collection improve forest resilience?

While European forest owners fully support the general principle of increasing resilience of European forests, we have substantial doubts whether the proposed provisions of of the European Commission's proposal might be the right tool for achieving it.

2021 was the second worst fire season ever, but 2022 is already breaking this sad record

The European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) report “Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2021” was published on 31 October 2022. The report finds that 2021 fire season was the worst, but notes that the on-going fire season 2022 is already breaking this record.