Climate Resilient Forest Management System is one of the services under SERVIR-HKH that is being implemented in Nepal in collaboration with Department of Forests & Soil Conservation (DoFSC) and Ministry of Forest & Environment (MoFE), Government of Nepal. The partners of this program also include Hariyo Ban II program that comprises of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal, CARE Nepal, FECOFUN, and NTNC. The CRFMS framework follows a “Science into Use” approach that can play an important role in enhancing the forest management. It aims to reduce the vulnerability of forests to climate change and the degradation of forest ecosystems due to anthropogenic drivers.
This web based decision support tool provides scientific information regarding observed and predicted functioning of forest ecosystems at national, provincial, and district scale for whole Nepal, can be useful in supporting the decision makers while building the resilience of the ecosystems in Nepal. The outputs include observed climate sensitivity of forests from 2000-2020, predicted climate impacts under RCP 4.5 for the year 2050, forest degradation, and forest fragmentation and other relevant layers. In addition, this tool provides “adaptation footprints”, which identify the forest areas that require urgent attention because of high levels of observed and predicted climate impacts as well as high levels of degradation due to anthropogenic drivers.