News from FUTUREforest

Climate change commitment – politicians sign up for action (04-11-2009)

Welsh rural affairs Minister Elin Jones AM has joined political leaders across Europe in a seven nation agreement to work together to tackle climate change.
The document was signed at a climate change conference in Barcelona hosted by FUTUREforest, the INTERREG IVC European project looking at how forests can adapt to climate change and provide opportunities for mitigation.

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Plastic forests – the new way forward for Welsh woodland management? (01-06-2009)

Plastic forests could provide the solution to the future for Welsh woodlands as the country faces up to rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.

But that doesn’t mean Welsh hillsides will be covered with man-made trees as predicted climate change patterns begin to impact.

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Welsh woodlands – a key player in the fight against climate change (20-04-2009)

Climate change experts from across Europe will be seeing how the Welsh woodlands are already helping to alleviate the effects of climate change.


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Climate change research team steps into the future to meet the challenge (14-04-2009)

A Welsh climate change research ‘time team’ has stepped into the future to help prepare the woodlands of Wales for changing weather patterns.

The FUTUREforest researchers from Aberystwyth were in Catalonia to see how the increasingly extreme and unpredictable changes in climate have impacted on the forests.
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