Last week Italy hosted the G7 Summit where on June 15 the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
The two leaders highlighted the strong and growing relationship between Canada and Italy, and officially launched the Italy-Canada Roadmap for Enhanced Cooperation. The Roadmap sets out ambitious, concrete plans to collaborate over the next three to five years in shared priority areas ranging from energy security, climate change, and biodiversity to migration, sustainable economic growth, and research and innovation.
In the Roadmap, when talking about Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Pollution, the role of the International Model Forest Network was also cited. Here an extract from the document:
“Italy and Canada will continue working together to advance sustainable forest management globally, including as it relates to wildfire management. This includes working together through the International Model Forest Network on the sustainable management of forest‐based landscapes and natural resources, as well as through contributing to the efforts of the FAO Global Fire Management Hub.”
Year by year the occasion where the Model Forest approach is cited as best practice in the management and governance of the territories increase, recognizing the importance of the Network in facing local and global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration and rural development.