Resources

This work highlights macro-economic developments of the forest sector in Europe. Socio-economic outcomes and impact on the forest sector (forestry, wood products, and paper & pulp) under high wood demand scenarios were assessed using the MAGNET model.

The D5.2 report analyzes CO2 emissions and removals arising from Harvested Wood Products (HWP) with a focus on five out of a total of 18 calculated scenarios, including alternative levels for wood demand and wood uses as defined in the ForestNavigator project (see D5.1). The estimates are based on the two pool-based approaches as described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), applied at the country scale and aggregated at the EU scale. The results show the determined HWP contribution to biogenic CO2 emissions and removals associated with the production or the consumption of wood products both for the historical development and the future period 2024-2050, including an overview of the uncertainties due to the underlying data, the modeling framework and its assumptions. The results will serve as a basis for calibrating the HWP pool calculator to be integrated in the ForestNavigator WP6-7 policy modelling toolbox.

This report evaluates species distribution models under archetypal climate change and forest management scenarios to assess their impacts on terrestrial forest biodiversity. To achieve this, covariates describing environmental, climatic, and forest structural conditions under various climate change and forest management scenarios were analyzed using two complementary approaches. First, a modeling framework employing integrated species distribution models was applied, including a cross-scale comparison of results at both the pan-European scale and the national scale in Sweden. Second, a biodiversity trend assessment was conducted based on a non-systematic literature review and species-specific range maps.

This report outlines the rationale and objectives of the FPMF, reviews EU and MS participation during the project’s initial phase, provides insights from the first FPMF meeting in September 2024, and presents next steps to strengthen collaboration for informed forest policy-making across the EU.

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).

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.

This report outlines the modelling framework to assess impacts of forest-based climate change mitigation pathways on forest biodiversity. It describes all included data sources, the data pre-processing, and outlines the individual modelling steps. Furthermore, it introduces the indicators used to quantify biodiversity.

This report presents a comprehensive database of forest management (FM) practices in the EU 27. Both current FM practices (curFM) and future alternatives (altFM), crucial for shaping forest policy pathways, for major forest types are covered. The altFMs consider measures addressing adaptation to climate change and evolving demands for ecosystem services, including forest biomass supply, biodiversity conservation and multifunctionality. This open access database emphasizes FM parameters valuable for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers involved in forest management decision-making.
The database combined various sources, including national guidelines, previous research projects, scientific literature, and experts’ opinion. The use of standardized terminology and machine-readable attributes make it easy to use in forest simulation model parametrization.
This Version 1 of the Adapt4Model database will be refined throughout the ForestNavigator project’s duration.

This report describes the data delivered in D2.1, which consists of the first installment and version 1 of the forest geodatabase. This report provides a brief summary of the data layers included in D2.1, the methods applied, existing data sources used, and data curation efforts to date. Existing and planned validation steps of the data are also briefly described.

This report presents the conceptualization of the ForestNavigator portal and its components, namely the “Data Repository”, “Model Repository” and “Computing module”. These three components (together referred to as the platform) will host the data, models, and source codes from the ForestNavigator project, as well as workflows for data processing and model deployment. This platform will allow ForestNavigator researchers and external researchers to interoperate shared data and models, to reduce modelling cycles, and to increase the outreach of the project.

This report describes the complete set of communication materials and tools for the ForestNavigator project, including the public website (V1.0). The tools will support the communication activities to raise the awareness among the general public, to reach out to the main stakeholder groups of the project and widely distribute project results to different target audiences.

Deliverable D1.1 of the Horizon Europe ForestNavigator project presents the report on stakeholder mapping and internal stakeholder database. The report describes the mapping process and outcomes as well as the dynamic internal stakeholder database. ForestNavigator identifies and maps stakeholders from the sub-national to the international scale based on a set of characteristics, such as stakeholder category, geographical scope, and sociodemographic factors. The aim of the mapping process is to provide a comprehensive and diverse stakeholder base for stakeholder engagement activities throughout the project. The report further describes the dynamic stakeholder database, which will be updated throughout the project lifetime.