LEARNFORCLIMATE addresses the urgent need to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by promoting multifunctional management of forests in times of rapid socio-ecological change.

NEWS 2025

2025-05-08

A Final conference for both LEARNFORCLIMATE and sister-project BIOCONSENT is planned for September. Key results from both projects will be presented, as well as presentations from invited keynote speakers and discussion panels on forest restoration through both biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation. Here is information on the event:

From Policy to Practice: How to realize EU forest, climate and biodiversity goals?

🗓 Date: 23 September 2025
⏰ Time: 09:00–16:30 CEST
📍 Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V., Bonn, Germany or online

About the event:
This conference gathers policymakers, forest professionals, researchers, and environmental stakeholders from across Europe to share research results, exchange ideas and explore solutions for sustainable, climate-adapted forest management.

• BIOCONSENT provides decision making support to balance biodiversity conservation, sustainable forestry, climate adaptation and mitigation, and water protection, with insights from case studies in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the EU-27.
• LEARNFORCLIMATE supports learning to achieve multiple objectives while adapting to climate disturbances (e.g., droughts, storms, fires), with case studies in Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Sweden.

What to expect:

• Cutting-edge research findings from both projects, covering policy, legal, and management trade-offs.
• Interventions on policy perspectives by experts from the European Commission, European Parliament and Member States.
• A policy-science panel discussion with policymakers, researchers and forest stakeholders.
• Interactive discussions and networking opportunities to share ideas and build collaborations.

2025-04-01

The sister-project BIOCONSENT has published a report with results from the projects, called “Policy maps of national forest biodiversity conservation and restoration related policy and implementation in Europe“. The report maps member states’ forest policy and analyses to what extent EU forest related biodiversity conservation and restoration policy goals and targets are coherent with national regulations. Link to the report can be found here.

2025-03-31

Sister-project BIOCONSENT has published a report with results partly also from LEARNFORCLIMATE called “Policy and Driver Scenarios of Forest Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration in Europe”. This publication explores policy and driver scenarios, and supports decision-making by focusing on trade-offs and synergies at the forest-biodiversity-climate-water nexus. There are 15 scenario narratives in the report, including three EU-level scenarios and three each for Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Sweden. The scenarios are used as a joint point of departures for National Policy Driver Scenarios that have been used in local/regional workshops in Germany, Slovenia, Poland and Sweden.

2025-02-27

Practitioner workshop held in Norrbotten, Sweden. Similar worskhops were already held with other stakeholders and in the other partner countries. Private individual forest owners as well as representatives of state- and private forest corporations gathered in small groups to discuss forest management responses to climate change disturbances and the policy options featured in three scenarios developed by the research team. The local private forest owners shared their experiences with the large wildfire that hit the area in 2006 and its subsequent effects on their forest management.