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Climate change and resilient woodlands

Practical advice for woodland owners, managers and local authorities.

• From: Forestry Commission
• Published: 3 August 2020

The UK’s climate is changing. Even with very ambitious actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally, some further climate change is inevitable up to at least 2050. Planting and managing trees, forests and woodlands so that they are fit for the future must be part of our response.

Trees, woodlands and forests play a key 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. Read our climate change guidance below.

Documents

• Climate change and forestry: position statement
  • 1 September 2021
  • Correspondence
• Managing England’s woodlands in a climate emergency
  • 3 August 2020
  • Guidance
• Leaflet: Responding to the climate emergency with new trees and woodlands
  • 1 March 2022
  • Guidance
• Selecting tree seeds for current and future climates in order to maintain productivity
  • 4 June 2020
  • Guidance

Published 3 August 2020