The value of forests and trees in Brabant is undeniable. They provide oxygen, store CO₂, purify drinking water, and offer space for relaxation. But their significance goes much further than that. Healthy forests and trees form a foundation for broad prosperity worldwide.
Forests are the cheapest and most efficient way to store CO₂. But a forest is not only there for that. It is also a recreational area, cultural space, and producer of raw materials. If you had to give each of those functions a place separately, you would need much more space than if you plant a forest.
Brabant Forest Strategy and Action Plan 2.0
With the Brabant Forest Strategy (2020) and the resulting Action Plan Brabant Trees – now in version 2.0 – the province is following an ambitious path: by 2030, more new forest must be added and existing forest revitalized. In recent years, nearly 1000 hectares of new forest have been created and more than 3000 hectares of forest revitalization has begun. Yet the challenge is great. Climate change, nitrogen, and drought put Brabants forests under pressure.
Forests and Broad Prosperity
Healthy forests are not just a nature or climate task. Healthy forests are directly related to the theme of Broad Prosperity. This involves not only looking at how things are now but also at the generations after us. And at the effects on people and animals elsewhere in the world. Forests play a crucial role in this. It is about health, about raw materials for the economy, about clean air.
Broad prosperity and the Action Plan Brabant Trees reinforce each other. Where forests provide the aforementioned ecosystem services, broad prosperity makes visible what those services mean for our well-being, our economy, and the generations to come.
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