When: 3 May 2022 | 11:00-12:30 Seoul time (04:00-05:30 CEST; 03:00-04:30 CET)
Where: Online and in Seoul, Korea.
Register: https://wfc2021korea.org/
UNEP, CIFOR/ICRAF and SIWI Swedish Water House are co-organizing a session at the XV World Forestry Congress in Korea (2-6 May) entitled “Forest-Water Connections to achieve the SDGs”. This event is the latest one in the collaborative effort, the Forest-Water Champions.
The hybrid event on 3 May is taking place from 11:00-12:30 Seoul time (04:00-05:30 CEST; 03:00-04:30 CET) and will focus on topics such as improving integration of water in forest management and how to maximize the outputs from the forest-water nexus at different scales and landscapes from the mountains to plains and rivers. It will also highlight the importance of the forest-water nexus to achieve the SDGs by showcasing examples from mountain, plains, urban and coastal areas and ecosystems, including peatlands, mangroves and flying rivers. Through these examples, the session will also explore questions such as how forests provide water-related benefits, how we should manage them, and what kind of barriers need to be overcome to advance the forest-water nexus. The session will end with a Call to Action on the forest-water nexus.
Landscape approaches that have the provision of water services as one of the main management objectives are increasingly being implemented as a form of Sustainable Forest Management, as they go beyond the boundaries of traditional forest management by focusing on the range of co-benefits that come from this focus.
The overall message from the session will be that managing forests for water-related services, through inclusive and cross-sectoral collaboration, can contribute to achieving the SDGs and to addressing some of the world’s major challenges such as climate change and food and water insecurity.
