This event will showcase the critical role of forests in providing water-related services and the importance of these benefits for ensuring resilient food systems and communities. It will feature a keynote on the latest science on the forest-water-climate nexus and a discussion among policymakers from forest-rich countries to highlight a diversity of innovations being leveraged to promote the key water-related services that forests provide.
The event will demonstrate that ensuring the functionality of forested landscapes and the delivery of ecosystem services requires effective management and monitoring that focuses on water. New management approaches are not needed.
Advancements in science and technology are increasingly playing a key role in informing decision making within existing management approaches to ensure that forest and water relationships are accounted for, while understanding synergies and trade-offs that may be generated in the provision of multiple services. Policies across sectors must increasingly recognize this.
The novelty of this event is in highlighting developments in science, policies and practices related to the forest-water-climate nexus. The invited speakers are engaged in cross-sectoral actions in their respective governments to clearly show linkages between forests, water and agriculture. The event will feature innovations that are helping to spotlight the vital but under-recognized functions of forests.
