Helga Pülzl
Helga Pülzl is responsible for the Policy Support Facility and its Trust Fund. She has 25 years of experience researching European and international forest governance and policy change. She is also a Deputy Coordinator of the IUFRO working party 9.05.01 on ‘Bioeconomy policy in North and South perspectives’. Helga holds a PhD and master’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna (Austria), and from 2025, she became an international fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA).
Key topics: European forest governance and change; international forest discourses, citizens' perceptions on forest ecosystem services; bioeconomy perceptions
Content by this person
A global analysis of key design factors for sustainable payment for ecosystem services schemes
This review intends to assist PES designers and policy and decision-makers in developing PES schemes better tailored to contemporary challenges and…
- Forests and people
A review of forest management practices potentially suitable for carbon farming in European forests
To meet the European Union's climate neutrality targets by 2050, carbon farming (CF) has emerged as a key strategy to enhance carbon (C)…
European forest governance post-2020
This 2020 report reviews significant developments in the forest governance framework including EU and international developments.
- Inclusive governance
European forest governance: Issues at stake and the way forward
A condensed and structured description and assessment of forest-focused and forest-related policies and of actor constellations at the European level.
- Inclusive governance
Forest bioeconomy - a new scope for sustainability indicators
Insights into the potential use of forest-based sector indicator sets in Europe.
- Sustainable economy
Key questions on forests in the EU
This publication compiles key research findings in the form of 12 questions on forests in the EU and the benefits they provide to society.
- Resilient forests
Taking a bird’s eye view of EU wood-based policy
Untangling policy, institutional, and actor frameworks affecting the wood-based sectors.
- Sustainable economy
What do people think about forests in the EU?
FInd out people's perceptions of different forest ecosystem services in the EU.
- Forests and people
Events this person spoke at
Ask a Scientist - Carbon Farming in European Forests
This event explored the potential, challenges and science behind carbon farming in European forests, including carbon storage, monitoring and policy…
7 April 2025, 14:00–15:30
- Resilient forests
From nature restoration to national restoration plans
This event discussed how to develop effective, realistic and socially accepted National Restoration Plans under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation.
4 November 2025, 10:00–11:30
- Inclusive governance
Navigating through the EU forest-related objectives
This ThinkForest event presented key insights from the study on EU forest policy objectives and discussed opportunities for better policy coherence
10 December 2025, 17:00–18:30, CET
- Inclusive governance
Public and private financing forest restoration and biodiversity conservation
This event aims to examine how forest restoration and biodiversity conservation might be financed and incentivized more effectively.
30 September 2026, 13:00–13:30
- Sustainable economy
The European Deforestation-free products Regulation
This event provided updates on how countries in the Global South are preparing for the implementation of the EUDR and shared learnings.
16 September 2025, 15:30–17:00
- Sustainable economy
