This report is the fourth comprehensive public report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) entirely dedicated to the topic of biomass. This report also marks the ten-year anniversary...
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The forest-based industries and the energy production sector are intricately interlinked through both synergistic and competitive behaviour. Sawmilling by-products are used for wood pulp (for...
Recognising that advances in behavioural, decision and social sciences demonstrate that we are not purely rational beings, this report brings new insights into our political behaviour...

Biomass is very much centre stage in the European Green Deal. Forests, the seas, freshwater and agricultural systems, are expected to simultaneously mitigate climate change, accommodate...
Primary and old-growth forests are more resilient to natural disturbances – Perspective on wildfires
This briefing describes the characteristics of primary and old-growth forests and assesses its resilience to natural disturbances, in particular wildfires. Likewise, the role of primary and old-growth forests on wildfire risk...
Deadwood (DW) plays a critical role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, as well as other critical forest ecosystem processes, such as nutrient and carbon cycling and forest...
The European Union (EU) uses biomass to meet its needs for food and feed, energy, and materials. The demand and supply of biomass have environmental, social, and economic impacts...
Discover uses and sources of woody biomass at EU and Member State's scale (2009-2017 data).
View JRC estimates on the biomass sourced and used for food, feed, energy and materials in the EU.
This report presents the state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on Values and Identities from an interdisciplinary perspective. Values are said to be the dominating forces in life and Identities represent who we...