Romania exceeded PNRR target for afforestation, reforestation, and new urban forests

12 August 2026 Romania’s Environment Ministry has exceeded the targets assumed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for afforestation, reforestation, urban forests and the development of capacities for producing forest reproductive material, according to a press release. At the national level, 20,716 hectares of afforested and reforested land have final acceptance reports and have been verified by the Forest Guards, compared with the PNRR target of 18,000 hectares. As such, the degree of achievement of this target is over 115%. At the same time, 13 hectares of urban forests have been created, which means the full achievement of the assumed target, and 109 nurseries have been completed, 19 more than the target of 90 provided for in the PNRR. “These are concrete results,