The Korea Forest Service (Director Kim In-ho) introduced on Nov. 20, that it held the ‘sixth Korea-Canada Forest Cooperation Committee Assembly’ through video convention.
The assembly was attended by Nam Tune-hee, Worldwide Forest Cooperation Officer, as Korea’s chief consultant, and Joyce Henry, Director of Commerce, Financial and Industrial Affairs, representing Canada. Key agenda objects mentioned included △joint response to forest fires amid intensifying local weather disasters △enlargement of wooden development utilization to realize carbon neutrality.
Either side explored cooperation instructions in forest hearth response, together with firefighting personnel training and coaching, and mutual assist for tools and personnel. Detailed implementation plans can be specified by means of future working-level consultations.
The contributors additionally exchanged views on varied agenda objects together with △enlargement of development utilizing eco-friendly timber △joint analysis on noise discount in wooden development △biodiversity conservation △city forest creation △sustainable forest administration.
Canada skilled large-scale forest hearth injury of roughly 15 million hectares in 2023 and at the moment maintains excessive competitiveness in associated fields by selling over 700 large-scale wooden development tasks.
A Korea Forest Service official stated, “By this committee assembly, each international locations will additional solidify sensible cooperation foundations in varied forest sectors together with forest hearth response and the timber business,” including that “as forest disasters improve because of local weather change, the significance of worldwide cooperation is changing into even higher.”
Nam Tune-hee, Worldwide Forest Cooperation Officer, acknowledged, “We are going to proceed to strengthen sensible diplomacy primarily based on forest hearth response and timber business know-how cooperation with Canada, which leads world forest insurance policies within the subject of local weather change response.”
In the meantime, Korea and Canada have been holding cooperation committee conferences biennially since signing a forest cooperation MOU in 2014, persevering with collaboration in coverage and know-how sectors.
