Project description
The role of European forests in achieving climate neutrality by 2050
Forests are crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss, and are therefore at the heart of the EU Green Deal. In this context, the EU-funded ForestNavigator project aims to assess the climate change mitigation potential of European forests and forest-based sectors. To that end, it will focus on modelling policy pathways and informing public authorities about the best approaches to forest policy and bioeconomy. Relying on a newly developed integrated policy modelling framework for EU forests and forest bioeconomy, the project will focus on selected EU Member States and EU trading partners.
Objective
ForestNavigator aims at assessing the climate mitigation potential of European forests and forest-based sectors through modelling of policy pathways, consistent with the best standards of LULUCF reporting, and informing the public authorities on the most suitable approach to forest policy and bioeconomy. With a primarily European scope, ForestNavigator zooms into carefully selected EU Member States to enhance the consistency of the EU and national pathways, but the project also zooms out towards the global scale, and selected key EU trading partners, accounting for extra-EU future drivers and potential leakage effects.
The project will rely on a newly developed integrated policy modelling framework for the EU forests and forest bioeconomy covering i) all relevant mitigation strategies from forest management to energy and material substitution, ii) climate change impacts, adaptation, and natural disturbances, iii) biophysical climate feedbacks, iv) systematically accounting for impacts on biodiversity, forest ecosystem services, and other forest functions, incl. jobs and green growth. To increase the accessibility of the models and pathways assessments, their understanding and transparency, a novel decision-making platform will be established consisting of the web-based ForestNavigator Portal, and a community of policy-makers, national authorities, and modelers, the Forest Policy Modelling Forum.
To reach its ambitious objectives, ForestNavigator will i) harmonize, integrate and continuously update existing datasets by, including national inventories with new remote sensing data and models ii) start from complex forest and climate models and through emulators build them into operational policy modelling tools, iii) integrate biophysical and socio-economic information, iv) consider EU forests and forest bioeconomy in the broader context of other land use and economic sectors, v) rely on input from policy makers and other stakeholders.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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2361 Laxenburg
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Participants (19)
1180 Wien
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38116 Braunschweig
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00196 Roma
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C15R6Y3 Navan
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4 Dublin
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8600-214 LUZ -LAGOS
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
11523 ATHINA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10969 Berlin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
750 07 Uppsala
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14473 POTSDAM
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80539 MUNCHEN
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00185 Roma
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254 01 JILOVE U PRAHY
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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6708 PB Wageningen
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80333 Munchen
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77420 Champs Sur Marne
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8092 Zuerich
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
100871 BEIJING
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
310027 HANGZHOU
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