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Forest biomass is an essential resource in relation to the green transition and its assessment is key for the sustainable management of forest resources. Here, we present a forest biomass dataset...

Bioeconomy transition has been recognized as a key solution to tackle emerging environmental and socio-economic challenges. Several scientific publications focus on forest bioeconomy across multiple...

Forest biodiversity studies conducted across Europe use a multitude of forestry terms, often inconsistently. This hinders the comparability across studies and makes the assessment of the impacts of forest...

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...

Despite a slight positive trend since the year 2000, a JRC study shows that a third of our forests are in decline. The study supports the EU Biodiversity Strategy by assessing...

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...

Reducing the intensity of forest management increases carbon sequestration in forests. However, even if forest management were removed altogether, the mitigation potential of this strategy is limited.

European forests are facing multiple natural and anthropogenic pressures which are expected to become more severe in the next decades. Tree diversity is projected to decline...

This roadmap sets out a framework to equip the EU to reach its commitment on tree planting on the basis of the guiding principle: plant and grow the right tree in the right place...

This staff working document presents a summary of the evidence as well as the consultation activities related to the new EU Forest Strategy for 2030, as set out in the consultation strategy for the initiative...