The meeting “Forestry: A Sectoral Response to Climate Change” took place from 21-23 November 2006, in Steyning, England.

A Wilton Park conference, in cooperation with Great Britain’s Forestry Commission, participants at this meeting addressed pressing climate change and forestry questions, including: whether the impacts of climate change on boreal, temperate and tropical forest can be predicted, and whether present forestry policy and practice adequately accommodate the current understanding of climate change; what contribution carbon sequestration in forests globally can make to the mitigation of climate change; whether the current international frameworks and agreements are achieving sustainable forestry and reforestation, and whether they are sufficient to stop deforestation and forest degradation; how the national and international forest sectors should respond to climate change in the future; and whether new research, organizational, policy and practice initiatives are required. The Forestry Commission also launched a new climate change website, which, among other things, will contain all papers from the meeting.
Links to further information
IISDRS coverage of the meeting
Forestry Commission website