The employees of Lands and Skógar are actively involved in international cooperation.
Nordic Forest Research
A collaboration between countries in Northern Europe (in Norwegian samnordisk skogsforskning, SNS) to share knowledge, develop ideas and facilitate communication between Nordic scientists and their colleagues elsewhere in the world.
Project with funding from SNS Nordic Forest Research. Project aims to maximise the use of research in forestry by sharing experiences from different countries.
Project participants from Forest Service are Edda S. Oddsdóttir, Director of Research and Pétur Halldórsson, Director of Forest Service.
The aim is to acquire knowledge that supports informed decisions about forestry with regard to its effects on carbon sequestration, water quality, biodiversity, and soil quality.
Participant from Forest Service is Edda S. Oddsdóttir, Director of Research.
European cooperation in science and technology - COST
COST (European cooperation in science and technology) projects receive funding from the European Research Fund.
The project is to map out the best approaches to forestry to ensure positive regional development in mountain forest areas, with recognition of the ecosystem services of forestry, improved adaptability and resilience and mitigation of climate change by mountain forests. The project started in 2016 and will be completed by the end of 2020.
Arnór Snorrason, specialist on Mógilsá, and Sigríður Júlía Brynleifsdóttir, director of the Forest Resources Department, have been active participants.
In 2018, two young scientists will be visiting Iceland for the project, who will work to define the ecosystem services of carbon sequestration forestry in Icelandic farming forest projects in consultation with the Icelandic participants.
The action aims to improve preparedness against invasive pests in trees by monitoring European trees in exporting countries and building an international network of scientists and supervisory authorities. This project aims to establish a global monitoring network, develop standardized protocols, and explore regulatory measures to better identify and prevent harmful pest invasions. The project began in 2015 and concluded in 2018.
Participants were Halldór Sverrisson and Brynja Hrafnkelsdóttir, have been active participants.
Project on Soil Biodiversity and the link between the European Forest Service and the European Forest Service. Project started in 2014 and ended in March 2018. Project papers are being prepared and a final meeting was held in Spain in March.
Participant was Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir.
This project aims to provide a comprehensive overview of forest inventory-based prediction models used to assess wood and biomass supply, primarily in European countries. It describes both national and European systems, presented by experts or daily users, to provide accurate insight into the functionality, limitations, and possibilities of each system, as well as future developments in this field.
The project formally concluded in 2014, but its final version, a book including a chapter on Icelandic conditions, was published in 2017.
Iceland's participation in the Bonn Challenge was confirmed in 2021. The Bonn Challenge is an international initiative for the restoration of forests on degraded land.
The goal is to restore birch forests on 350,000 hectares by 2030 to increase carbon sequestration, reduce emissions, protect biodiversity, and strengthen the country's communities.
The Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Iceland is a party to it. The agreement emphasizes reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but land use (LULUCF) has a special status as it can both cause emissions and sequester carbon.
Iceland's participation in the Paris Agreement was confirmed in 2019.
LULUCF land categories
The abbreviation LULUCF stands for land use, land use change, and forestry.
The LULUCF land categories are forest land, grassland, wetland, cropland, settlements, and other land.
