Enhancing climate resilience of forest value chains

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BackgroundClimate change is affecting forests and reshaping landscapes.In many countries, storms and bark beetle outbreaks exacerbated by drought have reduced the availability of economically profitable wood.Increasing disturbances also impact the forest value chain, causing both short-and long-term trends:• Trend 1: In the short term, increased salvage logging on large forest areas impacted by forest disturbances (e.g.windbreak, drought or bark beetle) releases a market surplus of lower quality wood, leading to frequent, unpredictable turbulences on wood markets.• Trend 2: In the long term, the gradual conversion to climate-resilient forests is expected to favour mixed forests with a higher proportion of hardwoods, terminating the dominance of softwoods.This change requires large adaptations in the forest value chain.• Trend 3: Furthermore, societal demands on forests are changing, often making ecological functions such as carbon sequestration, water regulation or biodiversity more important.Forest owners and wood industry jointly bridging the risk gap to transform from disturbance-affected coniferous forests to more climate-resilient mixed forests.

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