GLOBAL WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK ACTIVITIES 2022
Planned activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2022
Note: The implemented activities will be published on this website by end of 2022. This is an overview of some planned international activities of GFMC in 2022:
- Mid-term regional activities between the 7th International Wildland Fire Conference 2019 (Campo Grande, Brazil) and the 8th International Wildland Fire Conference 2023 (Portugal)
- Implementation of the Start of the Landscape Fire Management Programme in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)
- Continuation of the programme “Adjustment of landscape fire management policies to the reality of climate change in Member States of the Council of Europe / EUR-OPA and non-member countries of Central Asia”
- Implementation of the agenda “Climate Change and Security in the South Caucasus” of the OSCE through bilateral fire management cooperation between Armenia / Georgia and Continuation of supporting the Government of Greece in development of holistic approaches in landscape fire management (based on the recommendations of the GFMC-led Committee on Perspectives of Landscape Fire Management in Greece (since 2018)
- Preparation of the 2022 International Aerial Fire Fighting Conferences North America (21-23 March 2022, San Diego, U.S.A.) and Europe (GFMC, Chair) (18-20 May 2022, Nimes, France)
- Follow-up of the ICAO Flying Forest Fire Fighting (I4F) Dialogue
- Final phase of the RESILPINE Project: Transformation of pine forests to close-to-nature forest management in Ukraine – with special consideration of resilience to fire and climate extremes such as drought