Minutes and actions from the third meeting of the Adaptation and Resilience Steering Group, from March 2024.

The main aim of this steering group meeting is to provide an update on the future productive species project and gain input into the criteria prior to the workshop.

Agenda items included:

• Action points from last meeting
• RAP update
• Future Productive species update
• Future productive species choice project update – methodology
• Tree improvement
  • If the data collected is a function of the past, could this give a bias towards business as usual?
  • Other studies are looking at assisted migration and suitable provenance – is this approach too focused on Scotland now?
• Plant and seed supply
• Silviculture
• Climate suitability
• Climate suitability - Abiotic risks
• Productivity and Carbon
• Pests and diseases
• Biodiversity and environmental impact
• Timber quality and end use
• Summary
• Use at UK level
• Workshop agenda
• Knowledge Exchange Events
• Summing up