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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...

The present dataset gives quantitative and qualitative information on the local mitigation policies implemented to achieve the 20% carbon reduction target (as in the first CoM timeframe) by local...

This dataset provides the default emission factors utilized in the framework of the Covenant of Mayors Initiative. They can be used by local authorities to estimate their CO2 or Greenhouse...

This data article relates to and complement the research paper: 'Assessment of climate change mitigation policies in 315 cities in the Covenant of Mayors initiative' [1]. The reported data has...

Data on greenhouse gas emissions inventory (in CO2 equivalent), as reported to the European Environment Agency (EEA). Note that Eurostat is not the producer of these data, only...

Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable forest management that aims to manage forests in response to climate change. Specific CSF strategies are viewed as a way...

ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin...

European forests and the forest-based sector are already contributing significantly to climate change mitigation and substitution, amounting to some 13% of EU emissions. They have the potential...