[en] The forest-based sector, like the regions where it is a symbolic feature, is currently central to challenges that are not only specifically national but also of a global nature. As a major carbon sink that is currently affected by climate change, forests are acknowledged as supplying a large number of products and services. Both economically and socially important - representing a turnover of euros 60 billion and 440,000 direct and indirect jobs -, the 14. ranking strategic industrial sector in France remains vulnerable, with a marked trade deficit of around euros 1 billion per year for timber alone, and nearly euros 5.5 billion per year if the imported materials used by the furniture, paper and board sectors are added. Faced with these challenges, support for the competitiveness of the forest-based sector, and improvements to its global, economic, environmental and social performance, necessitate a reinforcement of the research-development innovation (RDI) continuum. Work on this assignment combined various pre-existing sources (studies by the National Forest Wood Programme (PNFB) and the Strategic Committee for Forestry and Wood Sector (CSFB)), with individual or collective consultations with different actors in the sector. This approach generated two series of proposals: - 13 RDI projects grouped according to three central and complementary priorities: (a) to improve performance in all parts of the sector through systemic approaches, (b) to develop uses for wood in a future bio-economic context, and (c) to adapt forests and prepare forest resources for the future; - an analysis of RDI mechanisms and funding instruments in the sector, supplemented by recommendations: (a) mapping of these mechanisms, and (b) the characterisation and development of innovative funding modes

[en] A first report proposes an overview of the situation and perspectives related to climate change in the Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region. Based on various publications, it comments climate predictions for this region, proposes an overview of the situation of the water resource and of its necessary protection, describes various disturbances of the environments, effects of climate change on economic sectors and productive areas, and more particularly on town planning and building, discusses the objectives of an energy transition, and also health risks related to climate change. The second report presents some characteristics of the Mediterranean climate and stakes related to climate change (notion of climate-related risks). It proposes an overview of the past and present regional climate (main evolutions of the past climate, refined knowledge of the present climate with instruments and techniques of data spatialization), and proposes prospective elements (understanding of emission scenarios, climate trends for the region, first indicators for four towns of the region, examples of recent thematic studies). The third report proposes a focus on the situation of the regional agriculture in front of climate change (phenology of sustainable plants, risks and opportunities for agriculture, wheat cultivation, innovative practices to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems, scenarios to anticipate the adaptation of Camargue rice production systems, a multidisciplinary initiative for a better assessment of stakes of climate change in mountain pastures), and a discussion of the new constraint on the Mediterranean forest due to climate change (operation of Mediterranean forest systems, adaptive forestry, impact of climate change on forest health and fire risk, the difficult interpretation of signs of climate change in coastal forests, the future of mountain forests, and the impact of ozone on the Mediterranean forest).