This interim report provides a comprehensive overview of stakeholder engagement activities with the project’s Stakeholder Board, thus far. This focuses on the first stakeholder workshop, held in June 2023, and the second in September 2024. Experts from various forest-relevant fields were invited to interact with ForestNavigator research and researchers during thematic stakeholder engagement workshops.
The deliverable content focuses on the ForestNavigator EU Policy Modelling Toolbox, which aims to address the interactions between climate, biodiversity, and bioeconomy. Here, we outline the concept of the toolbox, which is centered around the land-use economic model GLOBIOM/G4M-X and includes cross-sectoral interactions with the energy sector via the PRIMES model and to the broader macroeconomy with the linkage to the MAGNET model. The Toolbox also considers climate change impacts, ecosystem services, and biodiversity indicators, and outlines the model integration approach and deployment strategy for the project.
This deliverable quantifies the substitution impacts of wood use by comparing wood products to alternative materials or energy products. It follows both supply-oriented and demand-oriented approaches to trace wood uses and determine substitution impacts for specific end uses like construction and textiles. This deliverable complements the quantification of biogenic emissions and removals in the harvested wood product (HWP) pool (D5.2) and the land-use sector.
This deliverable describes the cooperation framework that the ForestNavigator project partners employ to collaborate with other Horizon Europe projects. This report describes the activities carried out for coordinating with other projects funded under the same call and other relevant ones. This report also gives a summary of the ForestNavigator work that contributes to the assignments from EC DGs.
The ForestNavigator project aids EU and national policymakers by creating policy pathways with medium and long-term climate goals. To ensure its output meets the need of these policy makers, the project engages with key EU and member state stakeholders including policymakers from the national case studies (Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the Czech Republic) in the Policy Steering Committee. This Committee steers the project relevance by providing updates on policy context, advising on outputs, and offering detailed feedback. Through biannual meetings and newsletters, the PSC members stay informed and provide feedback on project output. This report summarizes PSC meetings and 1:1 collaboration, highlighting their crucial input to the ForestNavigator consortium.
D5.1 creates plausible scenarios and projections for selected material uses of wood (construction and textile fibres), as well as bioenergy and biofuels. The deliverable follows complementary approaches, including partial equilibrium modelling (PRIMES and GLOBIOM) and elicitation of expert views. The market scenarios feed into the quantification of climate change mitigation potential and socio-economic effects (WP 5), as well as into broader analysis of synergies and trade-offs between forest ecosystem services (WP 6-7).