The document summarizes the work of FOREST EUROPE over the past 20 years to promote sustainable forest management (SFM) across Europe. It discusses new challenges facing European forests from climate change and increasing demands. FOREST EUROPE's vision is for all European forests to provide goods, services, and contribute to sustainable development. Its mission is to enhance cooperation on forest policies and secure SFM. Goals and targets were adopted at the Oslo Ministerial Conference to achieve this vision by 2020 through national programs and strategies. FOREST EUROPE will continue working to achieve these goals and fulfill its mission to develop policies and tools for SFM, monitor commitments, and promote education and awareness.

1. FOREST EUROPE/EFI/METLA
“The future of SFM in the
Side Event:
Pan-European region”
“20 years of SFM in the panEuropean region”
Shaping a Future where Forests
Contribute to a Sustainable World
Edurne Lacalle
FOREST EUROPE
EFW Side event
12 December 2013

2. FOREST EUROPE
New challenges
• European forests still face several threats:
• Effects of climate change (climate variability)
• Increasing pressure on resources
• Competition among uses such as wood energy,
timber production, biodiversity and carbon
storage

3. FOREST EUROPE
SFM
• In the last 20 years SFM has proven to be successful in
addressing the challenges through the promotion of a
balanced approach to forest uses that is capable of supporting
environmental, economic and social functions
• The current challenges makes SFM even a more crucial tool to
maintain healthy , diverse and productive forests.

4. FOREST EUROPE
Oslo Ministerial
Conference
Following Oslo Conference:
• Oslo Decision European Forests 2020
• Oslo Ministerial Mandate for Negotiating a Legally Binding
Agreement on Forests in Europe

5. FOREST EUROPE
Oslo Ministerial
Decision: European
Forests 2020
Vision
Mission
Goals
Targets
Actions

6. FOREST EUROPE
Our Vision
To shape a future where all European forests are vital,
productive and multifunctional.
Where forests contribute effectively to sustainable
development, through ensuring human well-being a healthy
environment and economic development in Europe and across
the globe.
Where the forests’ unique potential to support a green economy,
livehoods, climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation,
enhancing water quality and combating desertification is realized
to the benefit of society.

7. FOREST EUROPE
Our Mission
To advance this vision and comply with the goals and European
2020 targets, ministers decided that “FOREST EUROPE mission
is to enhance the cooperation on forest policies in Europe
under the leadership of ministers, and to secure and promote
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) with the aim of
maintaining the multiple functions of forests crucial to society”.

8. FOREST EUROPE
Goals
1. Sustainable management of all European forests ensures multiple
forest functions and enhances lasting provision of goods and services
2. European forests contribute to a green economy, including through
(…) ecosystem services from sustainable sources
3. Forest management in Europe is being adapted to changes in
climate, forests are healthy and resilient, and the productive and
protective functions of forests are maintained
4. The potential of European forests to mitigate climate change is utilized to
minimize Europe’s ecological footprint

9. FOREST EUROPE
5.
Goals
The loss of forest biodiversity in Europe is halted
6. The role of forests in combating the progress of desertification is
reinforced
7. Socioeconomic and cultural benefits, especially for livelihoods, rural
development and employment from European forests are optimized
8. Illegal logging and associated trade in wood and other forest products
are eliminated in Europe;

10. FOREST EUROPE
1.
European 2020 Targets
All countries develop and implement National Forest Programmes
2. Research, education, innovation, information sharing and communication
3. Substantially increased supply of wood and other forest products from
sustainably managed forests
4. The full value of forest ecosystem services across Europe is being
estimated and reflected in national policies (PES)
5.
All European countries include strategies for forests and climate
change adaptation and mitigation

11. FOREST EUROPE
European 2020 Targets
6. The rate of loss of forest biodiversity at habitat level is at least
halved. Fragmentation and degradation are treated
7.
The role of forests in combating desertification is fully recognised
8. All European countries ensure a significant increase in socioeconomic and cultural benefits
9. Effective measures are taken to eliminate illegal logging and
associated trade

12. FOREST EUROPE
In the years to come…
Under the strong conviction that further international actions are
required in order to reinforce and strengthen the implementation of
sustainable forest management with the objective of guaranteeing a
balanced and stable continuity of all economic, environmental,
cultural and social forest functions in Europe,
FOREST EUROPE will continue working on achieving the 2020 Goals
and Targets

13. FOREST EUROPE
Tasks
To fulfil the mission, FOREST EUROPE will continue to :
a) Develop and update policies and tools for SFM, facilitating
policy dialogue, active stakeholders’ participation and cross-sectoral
cooperation and coordination;
b) Monitor, assess and facilitate implementation of
commitments on forests and sustainable forest management;
c) Promote education, research and the use of scientific
knowledge and facilitate sharing of experiences;
d) Raise awareness and understanding of contributions by FOREST
EUROPE to sustainable forest management

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Contribute to a Sustainable World
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Shaping a Future where
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