2012-04-06 - “The Future Potential of European Mountain Forests: challenges and solutions between Green Economy and Climate Change”, 28th June 2012, Austria Room, FAO Headquarters, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome (Italy) The MANFRED Partnership has the pleasure to announce that the MANFRED Final Conference that will be held on 28th June 2012, on the premises of the Austria Room of the Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO headquarters in Rome (Italy), Viale delle terme di Caracalla.
The conference, titled “The Future Potential of European Mountain Forests: challenges and solutions between Green Economy and Climate Change”, is organized jointly by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, the Institute for Timber Plants and Environment of Turin, the Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the whole MANFRED Partnership, and will be hosted and facilitated by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat that have its central hub in FAO and in particular in the Forestry Department.
The event will be dealing with the future of the European mountain forests as linked to the challenges of climate change and the opportunity of a green economy. The Conference aims at enshrining the results achieved in the framework of the project with regard to scientific and transboundary cooperation at the Alpine level in the broader perspective of the most recent approaches undertaken at the international level with regard to forest issues.
The MANFRED project, launched in the framework of the European Territorial Cooperation “Alpine Space Programme 2007-2013”, aims at defining adaptation strategies for the Alpine Space forests in light of the potential impacts and hazard factors connected to climate change.
The project’s objectives are addressed by collecting and sharing scientific knowledge on protection and sustainable management for the forest ecosystems as well as by directly involving local decision makers and the relevant stakeholders within the development of effective forest management strategies suitable to the various territorial adaptation needs.
To join the conference, in compliance with the UN-FAO regulations, we notify that the registration is compulsory for all participants by June 20th, 2012. Please, register here.
Furthermore, we kindly ask all participants to bring a valid identity document.
Here it is possible to read the programme of the event and get more information on the logistics to get to the FAO buildings in Rome or on the suggested hotels.
For further information, in any case, you can contact: info[@]manfredproject.eu