Striving for Sustainability CSF Measures in Türkiye's Forest Management

Abstract

Forests play a key role in mitigating climate change. They are one of the major sinks for carbon, and the idea of how to use these important resources more efficiently and effectively has led to the emergence of a new trend in forestry in recent years. Climate Smart Forestry (CSF) aims to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) and seeks to fortify forests against potential climate change consequences in the future while increasing production and incomes sustainably from forests, in line with the main purpose of other climate smart initiatives. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the measures, indicators, and criteria that promote CSF. Following this, the strengths and weaknesses of Türkiye’s forestry legislation and practices were analyzed using the nine criteria derived from academic literature for CSF. Thus, the degree to which Turkish forestry practices and legislation are consistent with the CSF and its reflections were assessed. Analysis shows that the adapting forest to the future has the highest positive coverage in the sense of CSF among the Turkish Forestry legislation and practices. Furthermore, defining and establishing standards for CSF will help establish a framework by which other nations may assess their own progress in this area.