This report summarises existing knowledge on costs of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical and sub‐tropical forests. First, the scope of forest‐related cost studies and background information on definitions of and obstacles for SFM are given (Sections 1 and 2). The main part of...

The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020. Common guidelines and commitments have to be developed for two distinctive groups of countries. On the one hand, there are developed countries with...

Der Klimawandel zählt zu den zentralen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dem umweltfreundlichen, CO2-speichernden und ressourcenschonenden Rohstoff Holz kommt bei den Anstrengungen, den unerwünschten Folgen dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Mit der Suche...

Of the 42 countries that have participated in ICP Forests since 1986, 27 countries reported largescale monitoring data from Level I plots and more detailed forest ecosystem related monitoring data from Level II plots for the year 2012. In total, the participating countries provided information...