Several measures to better manage and adapt this environment have been announced in conclusion of the woods and forest seating, Wednesday, March 16th.
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Some 300 proposals, and already any first announcements and orientations. The closing of the woods and the forest, Wednesday, March 16, allowed participants to summarize their expectations and the government to start responding to it. These consultations, to which 480 people took part, had begun in October 2021 under the auspices of several ministries (agriculture, biodiversity, industry and housing). Their objective was to provide “concrete and operational” answers to deal with the many challenges facing the forest and the wood sector: their contribution to the achievement of carbon neutrality, adaptation to climate change, preservation. biodiversity but also industrial development to set up a competitive sector.
“These challenges are size but their infringement is not out of reach,” said the Minister of Agriculture. To achieve this, Julien Denormandie and the Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Bérangère ABBA, announced several measures. In terms of governance first, the composition of the Higher Council of the Forest and Wood will be expanded to research organizations, actors in the sector and NGOs. To have strong knowledge of the state of the forests and better anticipate future changes, additional means should be granted to the research and a National Observatory of the Forest, managed by the National Institute for Geographic and Forest Information ( IGN), will be put in place beginning 2023.
In particular, the Government has announced to perpetuate forest renewal efforts, which consist of financially supporting the owners to encourage them to improve the quality of stands with low economic and environmental value, and to better prepare their forests with the consequences of the consequences of the consequences. Warming. The Forestry Component of the France Relaxation Plan launched End 2020 devoted 150 million euros to this renewal, to plant about 50 million trees in two years. As of 2024, it is 100 to 150 million euros that should be devoted to it every year, thanks to a mobilization of public and private funds. “This perpetuation of the means is a major and structuring advance,” insisted Julien Denormandie.
A context of great uncertainty
In A report released Wednesday , the NGO Canopy Living Forests, which participated in the foundation, however, criticizes the lack of environmental ambition of the plan launched in 2020. In particular, it states that funding Public was massively allocated to shallow cuts and softwood plantation, especially the Douglas, even in well-wearing forests. “Our investigation reveals the offset between government communication and reality: presented as an adaptation plan for climate change, this plan is more of an adaptation plan for the forest to industry”, Judge Bruno Doucet, charged with campaigns that coordinated this document.
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