Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions (CLIMO) to be launched in October 2016

The Cost Action "Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions (CLIMO)" will be launched  in Brussels on October 2016. The main objective of the Cost Action is to define Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) in an European context, which will require the identification of key silvicultural characteristics and the harmonisation of CSF in mountain areas to create a common knowledge at the European level. The Cost Action proposal was lead by Dr. Roberto Tognetti from the University of Molise, Italy and will have participants from 20 countries in Europe. João Azevedo, CIMO researcher, is one of the Portuguese members in the Management Committee. More information HERE.  

The CLIMO Cost Action will be based on three main pillars: improve livelihood of mountain inhabitants by sustainably increasing forest ecosystem services (ES); enhance the adaptation and resilience to climate change of mountain forests; optimise the climate change mitigation potential of mountain forests, focusing on the most efficient and cost-effective mitigation options and capitalising on adaptation-mitigation synergies.