Increasing sustainability and resilience of European forests and related value chains – Challenges and solutions in times of climate change

In the policy brief, we draw from a set of insights and lessons learnt that are based on recent ForestValue projects around innovative sustainable management of multifunctional forests and innovative industrial production and processing technologies, products, concepts and services. The main solutions offered from the projects range from (among others) forest management and logistics solutions to wood construction material innovations and guidelines, and more. All this aims to contribute to ongoing challenges in Europe around maintaining and increasing sustainability and resilience of European forests and related value chains in times of climate change. The contributors represent a multidisciplinary set of scholars, researchers and practitioners involved in either implementing forest-based solutions, researching forest policy and governance, or finding technological solutions to support the forestry and forest-based industries in remaining competitive and efficient providers of sustainable bio-products and services.