Descrizione del progetto
Opzioni di politiche forestali per la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici
Le foreste europee e il settore forestale necessitano di percorsi strategici chiari che delineino metodi alternativi per ridurre le emissioni di gas a effetto serra. Il progetto ForestPaths, finanziato dall’UE, co-progetterà, quantificherà e valuterà politiche forestali complete per sfruttare al massimo il contributo apportato dalle foreste e dal settore forestale alla mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici. La ricerca indagherà la necessità di adattare le foreste alle nuove condizioni influenzate dai cambiamenti climatici, di conservare la biodiversità e di sostenere i servizi ecosistemici forestali. Inoltre, identificherà le opzioni di gestione e utilizzo del legno compatibili con il clima e la biodiversità in tutta Europa e analizzerà i co-benefici e i compromessi relativi alla biodiversità e ai servizi ecosistemici. Inoltre, ForestPaths coinvolgerà i responsabili delle politiche, gli operatori forestali, le autorità regionali e nazionali, il settore forestale, gli enti di certificazione, la comunità di ricerca e la società civile.
Obiettivo
The EU target to significantly reduce its emissions by 2030 and become climate neutral by 2050 requires new mitigation measures within all sectors. Clear policy pathways are needed that outline alternative trajectories for European forests and the forest-based sector towards a climate-neutral and resilient society and economy. ForestPaths will co-design, quantify and evaluate holistic forest-based policy pathways to optimize the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to climate change mitigation, while considering the need to adapt forests to climate change, conserve biodiversity and sustain forest ecosystem services provisioning. ForestPaths goes beyond the state-of-the-art by finding feasible Climate & Biodiversity-Smart (CBS) options across Europe, suggesting effective mitigation actions, and analysing their co-benefits and trade-offs with biodiversity and ecosystem services. ForestPaths engages with policymakers, forest practitioners, regional and national authorities, forest-based sector, certification bodies, researchers, and civil society in a co-design process to develop policy pathways and CBS options and maximize their practical usability, transparency, and trustworthiness. Openly available through an online policy support platform, pathways will be quantified based on a next-generation assessment framework of models, tools, and data. This framework will consider forest growth, climate change risks, as well as interactions between forests and the forest-based sector and economic system, supported by state-of-the art monitoring of forest disturbances, composition, and structure. The multidisciplinary consortium consists of research institutes, universities, and SMEs from across Europe, with leading expertise on climate, energy and biodiversity policies, complex system modelling, life-cycle analysis, remote sensing, disturbance ecology, forest and GHG inventories, social sciences, stakeholder process and communications.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
80100 Joensuu
Finlandia