The forest-based bioeconomy contributes to climate change in different ways: through the carbon stored in forests and the carbon stored in products made from wood, as well as by using wood to substitute fossil fuels and other, more carbon-intensive, materials.
| Related organisation(s) | JRC - Joint Research Centre |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Bioeconomy |
| Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | forestclimate changeClimate change mitigationbioeconomycarbon capture and storagebiomasssustainable forest managementwood product |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 24 Jul 2024 | 09 Mar 2022 |
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