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On 3 September 2015 the Commission adopted the Multi-annual Implementation Plan of the EU Forest Strategy which provides a concrete list of actions in order to ensure a coherent, coordinated...

The report provides insights into the potential use of forest-based sector indicator sets in Europe. It builds on the rich experience gained with sectorial indicator tools, and connects to aspects...

The Global Forest Trade Model (GFTM) is a partial equilibrium model of the global forest sector, with a European focus. GFTM shares the classical economic-mathematical formulation used by similar...

Sustainable forestry and wood utilisation can play an important role in strengthening a renewable resource-based bioeconomy. Governing associated structural change processes is a complex task; it...

A recent study on harvested forest area in the EU (Ceccherini et al. 2020) reported a strong increase in clear-cut harvest area in recent years, based on remote...

Forests provide a series of ecosystem services that are crucial to our society. In the European Union (EU), forests account for approximately 38% of the total land surface. These...

The European Forest Institute is an international organisation established by the European States that conduct research and provide policy support on forest-related issues, connecting knowledge to action. They aim...

This ThinkForest event aims to understand and discuss potential challenges, possibilities and policy implications on the European-China forest-based bioeconomy development.

The Commission has adopted the forest reference levels (FRLs) for each Member State to apply between 2021 and 2025. FRLs are benchmarks to calculate the sum of greenhouse...

This partnership aims to contribute to the development of new models, innovations, policies and investments in the field of forest bioeconomy and promote the collaboration of regions and regional actors at a European level.