National Forest Integrated Strategic Plan (2025-2043)

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CCLW national policies

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<p>This Plan ensures sutainable forest management and biodiversity conservation, and is provided for under the Forest Act. The integrated strategic plan will guide the provincial governments to sustainably manage national forests and to face the challenges seen in forest management in inter-provincial coordination and cooperation, and to increase the production and productivity of forest products. This will contribute to promoting a clean environment, self-reliance in forest products, export promotion, and green economy development.</p>
<p>Climate-related actions include:</p>
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<li>Mapping climate change vulnerability and poverty analysis in the forest sector;</li>
<li>Formulating forest management action plans at all levels and ecosystem risk analysis;</li>
<li>Recognition and priorisation of climate change options in the forestry sector;</li>
<li>Climate change adaptation capacity development;</li>
<li>Plantation and promotion of forest vegetation adapted to climate change for the provision of goods and services from forests;</li>
<li>Diversification of income generation to increase the resilience of the poor, women, Dalits, indigenous peoples, and marginalised groups and forest management groups at risk of climate change;</li>
<li>Climate change and natural disaster risk analysis, risk reduction plan preparation and calculation.</li>
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