Benefits of a Forest Monitoring Law
Posted on July, 17 2024
This joint paper sets out some of the core benefits of a Forest Monitoring Law (FML), a regulation proposed by the European Commission.
The FML aims to create an EU-wide coordinated framework for data on our forests: to track progress towards achieving EU targets and policy objectives, including on biodiversity and climate; to inform evidence-based decision making; and to improve risk assessment and preparedness. Collecting information about our forests is crucial to understand how healthy they are, how they are responding to increasing threats in a century of climate change, and to inform decision-making that supports the resilience of forests and their continued provision of multiple ecosystem services – on which societal resilience depends. Our joint paper details multiple benefits of the Forest Monitoring Law.
As we grapple with climate change, we depend on forests more than ever.
© Tomasz Wilk
As we grapple with climate change, we depend on forests more than ever.
© Tomasz Wilk