Transcript EU Forests

New EU Forest Strategy
Slovenian
forest
María Gafo Gómez-Zamalloa
Unit “Environment, Forestry and Climate change”
DG Agriculture and Rural Development
ASEM Event on Sustainable Forest Management
Ljubliana, 18 May 2015
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Rural areas in EU
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EU Forests
EU Forests
 Forest and other wooded land:
180 million ha (42% of total EU land)
 Ownership: 40% public and 60% private
(around 16 million of private owners)
 Forest-based
million jobs
industries
provide
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 Natura 2000: 50% of total Natura 2000
network in forests
 Felling: 60 % of the net annual
increment (annual growth)
 Certification: around 50% certified
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EU Forests
Forests in the EU are increasing
due
to
afforestation,
natural
regeneration and farm abandonment.
From 1990 to 2010 an area
equivalent to Hungary (around half
Cambodia) was afforested
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EU Forest-based sector
- increasing demands
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Forest-based industries:
- 3,5 million jobs
- €5000 billion of annual turnover
- 90% of wood as raw material comes from the EU,
the remaining 10%: most from Russia, neighbouring
countries and North America
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Forest bioenergy:
- Around 50% of total EU renewable energy consumption
- Most imports (mainly pellets) from Canada, USA and Russia
- Imports expected to increase in the future
Emerging bio-based industries:
Wood is considered as an important source of raw material
(green chemicals, viscose, bioplastics, …)
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Importance of nonwood forest products
and services
Non-wood products: Cork, resins, medicinal
plants, mushrooms, truffles, game, nuts, berries…
Services: protection of soil, air purification,
water quality…
In many cases, important to diversity
income and as a source of employment in
less favored rural areas
EU rural development policy supports SFM and
multifunctionality, contributing to further developing these
non-wood products and services
Quiz…
Could you identify the non- forest product?
Furniture
Glue
Packaging
Viscose "tree-shirt"
Panels
Vanillin
Pellets
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Paper
Ceramic parquet
EU Forest Strategy
SFM
New EU
Forest Strategy
Strategy for forests and the forest sector:
holistic view of forests and all related policies,
addressing also the value chain.
Objective: support sustainable forest
management and strenghten the coordination
with Member States as well as the coherence of
EU policies affecting forests
Ensuring that forests play a positive socioeconomic & environmental role in the EU:
rural development, added value products while
delivering ecosystem services
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PRINCIPLES and
2020 OBJECTIVE
•Sustainable forest management (forests)
Goods and services in a balanced way, ensuring
protection.
•Resource efficiency (value chain)
•Contribution to rural development, growth & jobs
•Global forest responsibility (international)
•Beyond EU borders
2020 OBJECTIVE: To ensure and demonstrate that all forests
in the EU are managed according to sustainable forest
management principles.
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PRIORITY AREAS
COORDINATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
Working together
Forests from a global perspective
Supporting our rural and urban
communities
CONTRIBUTING
TO MAJOR
SOCIETAL
OBJECTIVES
Fostering the competitiveness and
sustainability of forest-based
industries, bioenergy and the
wider green economy
Forests and climate change
Protecting forests and enhancing
ecosystem services
IMPROVING THE
KNOWLEDGE BASE
Forest information and monitoring
Research and innovation
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PRIORITY AREAS
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RESOURCES
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Co-financing of forestry measures under the Rural
Development Regulation, main means of EU-level funding
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Forestry measures: Afforestation; agroforestry systems;
prevention and restoration of damage; investments for
resilience/environmental value; investments in forestry
technologies/processing/marketing.
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Other horizontal measures: e.g. infrastructure, cooperation,
European Innovation Partnership..
(Around €3.8 billion in 2007-2013 –similar level of spending is
expected for 2014-2020)
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RESOURCES
Other sources:
- Horizon 2020 (research and innovation
actions, including
the
public-private
partnership on bio- based industries)
- LIFE+ (nature conservation, climate change
adaptation, information and protection
needs)
- Structural funds (cohesion projects)
- Development and climate change policies
(financing
for third countries, in
particular through EU
development
funds, REDD+ and FLEGT.)
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GOVERNANCE
• The Standing Forestry Committee,
forum for discussing all forest-related
issues, ensuring coordination and
coherence of forest-related policies
(Member States).
• The Civil Dialogue Group on Forestry
and Cork, main multi-stakeholder
platform for discussing issues related to
forestry
and
sustainable
forest
management (stakeholders)
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NEXT STEPS
Multiannual implementation Plan (Forest MAP):
Specific actions to be implemented by the Commission and
the Member States during 2014-2020 (who does what and
when)
Mid-term review in 2018.
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