With the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on 7 September, the United Nations Environment Programme issues for the second time a global call for action toward a single, unifying objective: clean air for all.

This year, the focus is on the need for healthy air…

The ICP Forests Brief No 3 titled Ozone concentrations are decreasing but exposure remains high in European forests is now available in Serbian: Концентрације озона се смањују али је изложеност и даље висока у шумама Европе

Please note that ICP Forests Briefs can be…

We would like to thank all Expert Panel members for their valuable participation in this years Joint EP meeting and we are especially grateful to the EP/WG chairs for the organization and chairing of their respective meeting.

With 233 registered participants joining online from 29 European countries and discussing current issues and developments in…

We are happy to announce the publication of a new INBO/ICP Forests report on:

Heavy metals in forest floors and topsoils of ICP Forests Level I plots: Based on the combined Forest Soil Condition Database - Level I (FSCDB.LI)

by Tine Bommarez, Nathalie Cools and Bruno De Vos from the Research Institute…

The State of Europe’s Forests 2020 report was published by the FOREST EUROPE Liaison Unit Bratislava.

The report provides comprehensive information on the status and trends in forests and forestry in Europe, based on the pan-European criteria for sustainable forest management.

It is a result of co-operation with numerous experts, governments, as well…

We are happy to inform you that the ICP Forests 2020 Technical Report is now available online and can be downloaded from the ICP Forests website. Printed copies will be available soon.

With best wishes

Alexa Michel, Programme Co-ordinating…

The Chairman of ICP Forests and the team at the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests wish all members and friends of the ICP Forests community a happy holiday season and a peaceful and healthy new year…

We are happy to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests Brief No. 4 titled Increased evidence of nutrient imbalances in forest trees across Europe. You can download this brochure from the ICP Forests website. Printed copies will be available…

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL for a smooth virtual TFM with 76 participants from 28 countries, including presenters from other bodies under the Convention and external guests.

Major results/developments:

• Adoption of the…

Because of the severe restrictions many countries have imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, the organizing team of the 9th Scientific Conference and 36th Task Force Meeting of ICP Forests have decided

to hold the 36th ICP Forests Task Force Meeting as a video conference on 11-12 June 2020, and

to postpone the 9th ICP Forests Scientific Conference to 7-9 June 2021

with a post-conference excursion on…

We are happy to inform you that the ICP Forests 2019 Technical Report is now available online and can be downloaded from the ICP Forests website. Printed copies will be available soon.

With best wishes

Alexa Michel, Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP…

The Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) would like to announce the redesign of their data request registration and download system together with the revamping of the EANET website.

Please have a look at the attached document for further…

The joint MSC-E & CCC & CEIP Status Report “Transboundary particulate matter, photo-oxidants, acidifying and eutrophying components” can be downloaded from http://emep.int/publ/emep2019_publications.html

Country specific reports and a report…

The 8th conference of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI 2020) will be the meeting point for scientists from all over the world who are dealing with reactive nitrogen compounds in agriculture, industry, traffic, soil, water and air.

At INI 2020, scientists and delegates are invited to present findings…

The joint MSC-E & CCC & CEIP & INERIS Status Report “Assessment of transboundary pollution by toxic substances: Heavy metals and POPs” can be downloaded from the MSC-E website: http://en.msceast.org/reports/2_2019.pdf.

All reports and supplementary materials are available online on the MSC-E webpage:…

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Kai Schwärzel will soon act as the new Head of the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests under the UNECE Air Convention.

Kai is a senior expert of soil science and forest hydrology. Over the last six years, Kai served as the head of the Soil and Land-use Management unit at the Dresden…

The 1st Announcement of the International Cross-Comparison Course Crown Condition with detailed information on this meeting has been published. More information on the ICP Forests website.

Best wishes

Alexa Michel,…

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for abstract submission to the XXV IUFRO World Congress has been extended to 10 January 2019.

Once again, we would like to advertise session B4g on Long-Term Forest Monitoring Networks for Evaluating Responses to Environmental Change.

The session aims to attract scientists, managers and stakeholders who are keen to understand large-scale, long-term effects of rapidly changing environmental drivers on forest…

Dear members of the ICP Forests website community,

The Chairman of ICP Forests and the team at the Programme Co-ordinating Centre wish you happy holidays and a peaceful and healthy new year 2019!

Marco Ferretti, Chairman of ICP Forests

Till Kirchner, Alexa Michel, Anne-Katrin Prescher,…

We are pleased to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests 2018 Executive Report on long-term monitoring of forest ecosystem compartments, organism responses to environmental stress, and modelling environmental stress in forest ecosystems.

You can download this report from the…