Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at Lund University and ForestPaths partner, presented some crucial outputs from the project at a recent workshop organised by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Founded in 1980, this international organisation has been at the forefront when it comes to the advancement of climate science. A testament to this is the WCRP’s provision of vital research data in the context of crucial global pacts like the Paris Agreement, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

18 November 2024 saw the onset of a two-day workshop on high-risk cascading shocks that WCRP organised in Geneva, Switzerland. The event provided an opportunity for fruitful discussions about ongoing research into environmental risk and extreme occurrences.

It was for this forum that a presentation, titled “Mechanisms controlling vulnerability and resilience in forests”, was prepared by Dr. Pugh. Within it, he provided an overview of risk factors that forested areas in Europe face and how these ecosystems adapt to their own vulnerabilities. Sharing these insights involved a showcase of the forest model LPJ-GUESS, a digital instrument integrated into the workflow of ForestPaths to capture compositional and structural information in forest biomes. 

You can find out more about the models at the core of ForestPaths’s work on their respective pages of the project’s website.