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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...

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).

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...

View JRC estimates on the biomass sourced and used for food, feed, energy and materials in the EU.

Ecosystem services (ES) accounts are essential to quantify and monitor the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being. The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting...

A new release of Sankey diagrams of woody biomass flows in the European Union as a whole are available for the years 2009 to 2017 on the European Commission Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy...

Browse the Sankey diagrams and visualise the woody biomass flows within the forest-based sector in the European Union (2009-2017 data).

This report investigates the potential effects of 12 free trade agreements (FTAs) under the current EU trade agenda. For this, it quantifies the cumulated sectoral impacts...

The dataset stores harmonised data on biomass supply, uses and flows in the EU compiled by the JRC Units contributing to the Biomass assessment study. This dataset mirrors the diagrams displayed...