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Climate change and resilient woodlands

Practical advice and guidance on climate change for local authorities, farmers and woodland owners and managers.

• From: Forestry Commission
• Published: 3 August 2020
• Last updated: 22 January 2025 — See all updates

Trees, woodlands and forests play an important role in greenhouse gas removal, but trees can only help reduce the negative impacts of a changing climate if they are resilient to those challenges themselves.

For more information on protecting our woodlands and forests from the impacts of climate change, visit Forest Research’s Climate Change Hub.

Guidance for local authorities

• Managing England’s woodlands in a climate emergency
  • 22 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Helping local authorities respond to the climate emergency
  • 18 January 2022
  • Promotional material
• How to protect and manage the urban forest
  • 22 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Responding to the climate emergency with new trees and woodlands
  • 22 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Selecting tree seeds for current and future climates in order to maintain productivity
  • 4 June 2020
  • Guidance

Guidance for land owners, foresters and farmers

• Managing England’s woodlands in a climate emergency
  • 22 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Responding to the climate emergency with new trees and woodlands
  • 22 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Selecting tree seeds for current and future climates in order to maintain productivity
  • 4 June 2020
  • Guidance

Forestry Commission's position statement

• Climate change and forestry: position statement
  • 1 September 2021
  • Correspondence

Published 3 August 2020

Last updated 22 January 2025 + show all updates

1. 22 January 2025

   Added a link to the Climate Change Hub.

2. 3 August 2020

   First published.