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A new EU funded project MoniFun is building a database on Europe's forests. The aim is to compile comprehensive information on Europe's forests and their links to climate change, society...

There are significant inconsistencies between the land use CO₂ estimates in national GHG inventories and those of the global models. Ahead of COP28, this study provides critical...

In 2022, the bioeconomy accounted for 13 per cent of the value added in the Finnish economy and 11 per cent of employment. Finland’s bioeconomy remains heavily dependent on the forest sector, the sector...

The EEA’s knowledge work relies on high-quality data. Through our network and other institutional partners across 38 European countries, we collect, quality-assure and quality-check...

The 2023 revised LULUCF regulation will require Tier 2 methods for monitoring all land and carbon pools by the reporting of the 2026 emission year, and then later...

The European Union (EU) has committed to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This requires a rapid reduction of nearly all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ensuring that any...

Forests are natural providers of services and the reason a total of 3.6 million people across different fields had work in 2021.

This report focuses on the second task of the Administrative Arrangement ESTAT-2021-0372, named LAFOWA, and signed between DG ESTAT and DG JRC. Task 2 aims to update and extend...

This report describes the maps on tree species distribution routinely produced at Joint Research Centre, and the data sets used to produce them. Its aim is to help those...

Over the last decades, the natural disturbance is increasingly putting pressure on European forests. Shifts in disturbance regimes may compromise forest functioning and the continuous provisioning of ecosystem...