Spain heads up development of common European Union guidelines for reforestation actions established in Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

These guidelines on reforestation will be developed in accordance with principles that foster biodiversity while maintaining the resilience of forest ecosystems and particularly address the necessary adaptation to future climate conditions.

The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Spanish acronym: MITECO) thus highlights Spain's experience in conservation and sustainable forestry management, but also Spain's commitment to green recovery. Promoting the sustainable use of land ecosystems, the sustainable management of forestry surface areas, fighting desertification, halting and reversing the degradation of land and the loss of biological diversity are one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, which our country is firmly committed to.

Despite hosting a large part of life on earth, exercising a fundamental role in the capture and storage of carbon, maintaining the air, soil and water healthy, and supplying food and shelter, the situation of forestry ecosystems in Europe is grounds for concern, according to the different reports on the state of conservation of nature and biodiversity of forests in Europe.

To this end, the EU Biodiversity Strategy acknowledges the multifunctional role of forests and forest ecosystems to achieve the conservation policies and goals of nature and biodiversity in the EU, for climate mitigation and adaptation, and for the health and well-being of all citizens, and for the long-term socio-economic development of Europe.

Forests constitute an essential element of environmental protection, the conservation of biodiversity, the maintenance of ecosystem services and social and economic development, with special emphasis on rural areas.

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