Tutkimuksen on tehnyt Jakartassa sijaitseva Kansainvälinen metsäntutkimuskeskus (CIFOR), ja se julkistetaan YK:n ilmastomuutoskokouksessa Poznanissa, Puolassa joulukuun alussa. Suomalainen CIFORin metsäekologi ja akatemiatutkija Markku Kanninen, raportin toinen kirjoittaja, sanoi uutistoimisto Reuterille, että monissa metsissä pienilläkin ilmastonmuutoksilla saattaa olla tuhoisia vaikutuksia.

Les forêts sont très sensibles au changement climatique et sont très menacées par ce phénomène qui pourrait conduire à leur assèchement, à leur destruction par le feu ou à leur pourrissement par l’inondation. Les forêts sont extrêmement sensibles au changement climatique qui devrait provoquer plus d’incendies et d’inondations, et il est urgent d’agir rapidement pour aider les millions de personnes pauvres qui dépendent des forêts, d’après les résultats d’une étude publiée jeudi. L’étude, publiée par le Centre pour la Recherche Forestière Internationale (CIFOR) a recommandé aux délégués qui participeront à la conférence climatique des Nations Unies à Poznan en Pologne, du 1er au 12 décembre, de chercher à élaborer de nouvelles manières de protéger les forêts dans les nations en développement.

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A group of forest scientists has warned that unless immediate action is taken, climate change could have a devastating effect on the world’s forests and the nearly 1 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods. The researchers, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), called for the implementation of adaptation measures to reduce the vulnerability of forests and forestdependent communities that will experience an unprecedented combination of climate change associated disturbances like flooding, drought, wildfire, and other environmental challenges in the next 100 years. According to “Facing an Uncertain Future: How Forests and People can Adapt to Climate Change”, a new book by CIFOR, immediate measures must be taken now to adapt forests to climate change.

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As florestas são extremamente vulneráveis às mudanças climáticas, que devem provocar mais incêndios florestais e inundações, e é preciso agir rapidamente para ajudar milhões de pessoas que dependem desses ecossistemas, segundo estudo divulgado na quinta-feira pelo Centro para a Pesquisa Florestal Internacional (Cifor, na sigla em inglês). Frances Seymor, diretor-geral do Cifor, disse que a proteção às florestas e seus moradores tem sido “pouco tratada nas políticas nacionais e nas negociações internacionais”.

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Forests are extremely vulnerable to climate change that is set to bring more wildfires and floods and quick action is needed to aid millions of poor people who depend on forests, a study said on Thursday. The report, by the Jakarta-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), urged delegates at a U.N. climate meeting in Poznan, Poland, from Dec. 1-12 to work out new ways to safeguard forests in developing nations. “The imperative to assist forests and forest communities to adapt to climate change has been poorly addressed in national policies and international negotiations,” said CIFOR director general Frances Seymour.

The world’s forests – and the billion people who depend on them – are facing devastation from climate change unless we “evolve” with the changing situation, according to a new report. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) reviewed the scientific literature on the effects of climate change on forests and concluded that it will have a dramatic effect on forests, irrespective of the future rate of greenhousegas emissions. Unless immediate adaptive action is taken, says lead author Bruno Locatelli of CIFOR, these changes will lead to a self-perpetuating cycle, where destruction of the forests leads to an increased amount of carbon in the atmosphere, which will in turn cause further climate change, and so on. The report identifies two categories of adaptation.

El impacto del clima sobre los bosques podría destruir la biodiversidad, empobrecer las vidas de millones de personas, e incrementar las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero “de un modo devastador”, según un estudio elaborado por el Centro Internacional de Investigación Forestal (CIFOR, por sus siglas en inglés) que se publicará la semana que viene. Según pone de manifiesto la investigación, y “a menos que se tomen medidas inmediatas”, el cambio climático podría destruir grandes áreas forestales además de las vidas de las “casi

1.000 millones de personas” que dependen de ellos para su desarrollo. Por ello los investigadores del CIFOR recomiendan la implementación de medidas de adaptación que reduzcan la vulnerabilidad de los bosques y de las comunidades que dependen de ellos. Entre ellas se encuentran la protección de los ecosistemas contra perturbaciones climáticas y la selección de especies que puedan soportar mejor los cambios previstos en el clima.

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The recent, “Not only for Profit”, seminar, held in Sangatta, heard that Sustainability of the area must not be the sole burdened of the Kutai National Park Center but is instead the collective responsibility of the surrounding community, government, research and education institutions as well as, perhaps most importantly, the private sector. The active role of companies operating in and around the area is indeed crucial. Thus far, however, this is a role they are not fulfilling effectively, Moira Moeliono, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) said at the seminar. She characterized programs implemented by companies operating in the area as ineffective and unsustainable.