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Learn about the updated global teak resources assessment and a new study on assisted migration to combat climate change! Read about COFO 27 and IUFRO activities there!
Global Teak Resources and Market Assessment 2022: The latest update on teak resources and markets was carried out with the support of IUFRO's network of scientists and TEAKNET experts. It shows that since the last FAO study in 2010, the area of natural and planted teak forests and the harvest of teak logs have increased, and teak's share of the global timber market is growing.
Climate change threatens the role of European forests as a long-term carbon sink. Assisted migration aims to increase the resilience of forest tree populations to climate change, using species-specific climatic limits and local adaptations through transferring seed provenances. A study led by the Austrian BFW was recently published by Nature Climate Change with IUFRO officeholders among the authors.
Innovation was at the center of the twenty-seventh session of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on Forestry. It was reflected both in the themes of this year's State of the World's Forests 2024 Report "Forest-sector innovations towards a more sustainable future" and the 9th World Forest Week "Accelerating Forest Solutions through Innovation". The week featured a series of events involving IUFRO speakers and included the celebration of 75 years of IUFRO-FAO collaboration.
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