Like all human activities, the different management of forests strongly influences the climate. Forest degradation is estimated to account for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which increases the global warming.
However, if well managed, forests can sequester from the atmosphere, decreasing the greenhouse effect and contributing to climate change mitigation. It is therefore essential that the forest areas are preserved, if not enhanced, increasing their surface and encouraging their resilience to climate change through appropriate forest management.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has indicated the importance of an innovative and sustainable approach to forestry activities (climate-smart forestry), based on the following objectives: sustainable productivity growth, creation of guidelines to control forest systems and reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
