# APPENDIX 10 – EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF FORESTT

## Scientific Challenge #1

### Management of forest trade-offs and synergies

- Global and local insights into trade-offs, synergies and conflicts in forest management strategies

- Decision support tools for managing trade-offs between forest ecosystem services at different spatial scales for orienting management and land-use strategies

### Decision-making under uncertainty

- Multi-risk approaches relating to uncertainties concerning the short- and long-term orientation of forest management

- Private mechanisms and public tools for risk anticipation and crisis prevention

### Support for forest innovations

- Recommendations for strategic environmental management approaches incorporating scientific advances

- Diagnosis of the French forest innovation system and proposals to improve its efficiency

### Orchestrating the forest social-ecological transition

- Critical analysis of multi-levels, private and public forest policies and management systems

- Recommendations for a democratic forest social-ecological transition
Scientific Challenge #2

**Current and future resource assessment**

-Definition of relevant properties determining potential, according to wood use

-Basic knowledge of wood formation and the determinants of wood properties

-Characterization of the diversity of raw materials by sets of relevant properties

-Characterization of resource quality, including socioeconomic capacities of actors (based on
demonstrators in living laboratories), including wood properties in forest resource models

**Adapting processes and products to current and future resources**

-Prototype innovative processes and wood products adapted to the diversity of forest resources

-Promotion of adjuvant-free products, decontamination, recyclability and upcyclability

-Producing data on products, processes & supply chains for sustainability assessment beyond LCA

**Analyzing and modeling bioeconomic systems**

-Models of the forest sector at global scale for policy-makers, including the wood-based
bioeconomy and other forest ecosystem services

-Companion modeling and decision-making tools for national policy-makers and territorial stakeholders

-Shared view of the wood industry and forest ecosystem (existing and future opportunities)
Scientific Challenge #3

Anticipating

-Re-examination of guidelines on forest reproductive material across regions for afforestation, reforestation and restoration

Simulating

-Models for predicting forest productivity, tree species survival and recovery after disturbances

-Simulators of forest growth and health adapted to new forest management practices and taking
risk management into account

-Improvement of decision support systems to optimize trade-offs between forest adaptation and
CC mitigation

Managing

-Adaptive forest management practices improving resilience and the provision of forest ecosystem services and products at the forest stand and landscape levels.

-Guidelines for crisis management

Planted forests

-New improved varieties with greater resilience
to biotic and abiotic perturbations

-Guiding species or provenance choice for
afforestation, reforestation & restoration
programs

-Recommendations for mixed-species
plantations

Natural forests

-Models predicting the adaptive capacities of
natural populations to support forest resilience

-Molecular & phenotypic diagnostic tools to
detect endangered genetic resources

-Conservation strategies to halt the genetic
erosion of threatened populations
Scientific Challenge #4

**Contributing** monitoring systems and data for policy support: global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, European Forest Strategy, prioritization of protected forest areas

**Supporting** forest science research with long-term monitoring infrastructures

**Providing** prognostic models and data visualization platforms for forest managers in France (including overseas territories), and private owners for resource planning

**Creating** innovative monitoring assets: very high-resolution remote-sensing for forests; AI-based feature identification (trees, species), hyperspectral technology for forest health and biodiversity

**Strengthening** the international position of France in research on forest carbon and biodiversity

**Reinforcing** the role of French overseas territories as a research laboratory for forest research and a model territory for the tropics-based deployment of infrastructures