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7/27/2019 European Forest Goals and Targets

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We, the Signatories of FOREST EUROPE, share a VISION:

I. Sustainable management o all

European orests ensures multiple

orest unctions and enhances lasting

provision o goods and services

II. European orests contribute to a

green economy, including through

increased provision o wood, other

orest products and ecosystem services

rom sustainable sources

III. Forest management in Europe is

being adapted to changes in climate,

orests are healthy and resilient to

natural hazards and protected against

human-induced threats such as orest

fres, and the productive and protective

unctions o orests are maintained

IV. The potential o European orests to

mitigate climate change, through carbonsequestration in trees and soils, carbon

storage in orest products and substitu-

tion o non-renewable materials and

energy sources, is utilised to minimise

Europes ecological ootprint without

harming the global carbon balance

V. The loss o orest biodiversity in

Europe is halted and degraded orests

are restored or rehabilitated

VI. The role o orests in combating the

progress o desertifcation is strengthened

VII. Socioeconomic and cultural

benefts, especially or live lihoods, rural

development and employment rom

European orests are optimised

VIII. Illegal logging and associated trade

in wood and other orest products are

eliminated in Europe

To shape a uture where all European orests are vital, productive and multiunctional.

Where orests contribute efectively to sustainable development, through ensuring

human well-being, a healthy environment and economic development in Europe and

across the globe. Where the orests unique potential to support a green economy,

livelihoods, climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, enhancing waterquality and combating desertication is realised to the benet o society

GOALS FOR EUROPEAN FORESTS

And a MISSION:

FOREST EUROPE enhances the cooperati on on orest policies in Europe under the

leadership o ministers, and secures and promotes sustainable orest management with

the aim o maintaining the multiple unctions o orests crucial to society

I. All European countries have developed

and are implementing national orest

programmes, or its equivalent, in line with

the shared vision and goals and the

pan-European approach to national

orest programmes

II. In addressing emerging issues orest

knowledge is improved through re-

search, education, innovation, inorma-

tion sharing and communication

III. In response to political objectives on

the use o renewable raw material and

energy in Europe, the supply o wood and

other orest products rom sustainably

managed orests has increased substan-

tially

IV. The ull value o orest ecosystem

services across Europe is being estimated

with a view to using common valuation

approaches, and that values are increasing-

ly reected in relevant national policiesand market-based instruments such as

payments or ecosystem services

V. All European countries include strate-

gies or orests and climate change

adaptation and mitigation in national

orest programmes or equivalents and all

other relevant national strategies

VI. The rate o loss o orest biodiversity at

habitat level is at least halved and where

easible brought close to zero, and

measures are taken to signifcantly

reduce orest ragmentation and degrada-

tion and to restore degraded orests

VII. The role o orests in combating

desertifcation is ully recognised and

orests are also managed to that end

VIII. All European countries have policies

and measures which ensure a signifcant

increase in socio- economic and cultural

benefts, especially or human health,

livelihoods, rural development and

employment rom orests

EUROPEAN 2020 TARGETS