FCCP publishes three regional climate change risk summary reports with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
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EmailFCCP publishes three regional climate change risk summary reports designed to support the identification and prioritization of climate risks to forests in the United States with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
The Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, Forest Carbon and Climate Program (MSU FCCP), in partnership with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), published three Regional Climate Change Risk summaries for the Southeast US, the Northeast US and Lake States, and the Northwest US. These science-based resources are designed to support the identification and prioritization of climate risks to forests in the United 
States.
As the impacts of climate change are intensifying and increasingly interacting, these summaries provide a practical, region-specific foundation for climate risk assessment and adaptation planning using the best available scientific information based on observed and projected climate trends. This work directly supports the most recent SFI 2022 Forest Management Standard, which seeks to promote sustainable forest management through measuring metrics including water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, threat and endangered species and forests with exceptional conservation value.
The regional summaries can be found here:
These efforts are a part of MSU FCCP’s larger Advancing the interpretation and implementation of Climate-Smart Forestry project, which has been a multi-year collaboration between MSU FCCP and SFI to support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, support forest resilience, and scale the impacts of climate-smart forestry through forest certification.
To learn more about SFI’s Climate-Smart Forestry Initiative, visit here.
This project was supported in part by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
