Climate Change

Climate change is expected to have profound and varied impacts on forest ecosystems and their dependent human communities. Applied research and testing mechanisms are needed to better anticipate and understand these changes and to help communities develop adaptation approaches. The RMFN-Asia is ideally positioned to be that mechanism. We offer a series of landscape-level sites that are transnational and global, as well as being dedicated to knowledge generation and sharing.

As ready-made living laboratories, we Model Forests aim to serve as platforms for monitoring and testing responses to changing conditions on the landscape. We facilitate the free flow of information between policy makers, communities, practitioners and researchers to promote national and transnational dialogue and collaboration.

We also work with governments to build capacity for landscape-level analysis and data collection to position Model Forests as an ideal framework for the testing of approaches in support of global climate change instruments, such as REDD+.

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