Policy pathways towards EU climate neutrality

Roadmap for EU forest sector contribution to carbon, biodiversity, and green economy goals

Mapping status and changes in EU forests

Near real-time monitoring of forests, carbon and biodiversity

Unlocking the EU forest potential to counteract climate change

Comprehensive assessment of forest-based mitigation and adaptation potentials

New Policy Modelling Toolbox for forest bioeconomy

Providing policy makers with efficient decision-making tools for climate action

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ForestNavigator

Navigating European forests and forest bioeconomy sustainably to EU climate neutrality

EU forests play a central role for achieving the EU climate neutrality goal: they cover 44% of the region’s land and absorb nearly 10% of its greenhouse gas emissions each year. This contribution is expected to grow in the future. However, due to increased demand for wood, more natural disturbances and forests reaching maturity, the rate of carbon removals from European forests has been declining in the past decade.

The ForestNavigator project assesses the climate mitigation potential of forests and forest-based sectors by modelling robust policy pathways, aligned with medium (2030) and long-term (2050) climate goals, and supporting EU and national decision makers. ForestNavigator applies integrated approaches combining observational data, policy expertise, and a range of advanced modelling tools to develop a Policy Modelling Toolbox, capable of addressing climate change impacts on coupled ecological and socioeconomic systems. The Toolbox relies on a near-real time monitoring of forests, carbon and biodiversity, and provides policy makers with efficient decision-making tools for climate action. With a primarily European scope, ForestNavigator zooms into carefully selected EU Member States to enhance the consistency of the EU and national pathways, and zooms out towards the global scale, for extra-EU future drivers and potential leakage effects.

 

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Unlocking the EU forest potential to counteract climate change

Policy Steering Committee updates on forest policy developments and feedback on upcoming work

by | 15 April 2024 | Stakeholder Activity | 0 Comments

ForestNavigator researchers provided updates on the Adapt4Model database, biophysical modeling developments, and G4M-X biodiversity modelling. Six members of the Policy Steering Committee (PSC) provided detailed feedback on this work and discussed how ForestNavigator could contribute to support the Forest Monitoring Framework legislation currently in development.

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ForestNavigator EGU 2024 session 16 April

by | 12 April 2024 | Event | 0 Comments

The session organized by Dr. Andre Nakhavali at EGU 2024, titled “𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡”, is set to take place on Tuesday, 16 April, from 16:15 to 18:00 CEST at PICO spot 1.

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D4.2 Report on socioeconomic variables

by | 2 April 2024 | Public Deliverables | 0 Comments

This report presents the collection of socioeconomic indicators to be tested in different analyses and modelling to assess employment opportunity, profitability of wood provisioning, and monetary values for recreational and cultural services. The list is selected based on existing studies and the models used in ForestNavigator. These indicators are categorized according to the main societal or economic aspects they cover. Attention is given to describing the planned use of each indicator, including spatial and temporal resolution, data sources, as well as adaptation needs to make the indicators operational within the modelling framework.

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Fulvio di Fulvio

Fulvio Di Fulvio, PhD

IIASA

(ForestNavigator Co-Principal Investigator)

“ForestNavigator develops the next generation Policy Modelling Toolbox to address the gap between the needs of decision makers and the capacity of current large-scale models supporting their policies.”
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Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik

Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik

IIASA

(Scientific coordinator)

“Our approach combines forest data with multi scale biophysical modelling. This will help us to quantify pathways for the EU forest sector, which consider not only alternative carbon sequestration in the forest and wood products, but also synergies with other policy goals.”
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Petr Havlík

Petr Havlík, PhD

IIASA

(ForestNavigator Co-Principal Investigator)

“ForestNavigator will provide the EU and national policy makers with a unique decision-making platform enabling continuous dialogue between policy makers and scientists to support the contribution of sustainable forests to the ambitious EU climate action, also beyond the project’s lifetime.”
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