Norway has established a secretariat in order to help it facilitate the aims of its chairmanship of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) political forum.
Norway plans to work heavily on climate, water and energy during its four-year stint in the chair, developing sustainable biofuel principles and using forests to mitigate climate change and protect against floods and droughts.
This will be governed by the secretariat and Norway’s forestry minister, Lars Peder Berkk, and will use the existing framework established by MCPFE as “solid ground for growth and diversity in today’s forests”.
Norway is also planning to use its four-year stewardship of MCPFE to work on potential legally binding cross-continental rules and regulations for forests.
