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This report addresses the contribution of deadwood to the risk of forest fires. Deadwood is considered a biodiversity indicator in forest ecosystems. Understanding its link with fire risk is necessary to inform...

The wood-based bioeconomy can make an important contribution to sustainable management of the economy. This requires a systematic approach that takes economic, environmental and social aspects into consideration. Forests supply...

Climate change, global population growth, declining natural resources and the loss of biodiversity challenge us to move towards a global bioeconomy, based on the sustainable utilisation of renewable...

Toward Re-Entanglement: A Charter for the City and the Earth is a global call to action for the healthy and regenerative re-connection of human activity with the Earth’s natural systems. The history of human-kind has seen...

The role of the forest-based bioeconomy in mitigating climate change through carbon storage and material substitution

While the positive role of forests in climate change mitigation is generally well perceived, the contribution of wood products to mitigation is much less known and understood. Current national...

Forests and forestry play a key part in the global carbon cycle and are central to efforts to achieve the 2015 Paris Agreement goals and limit global temperature increases...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the climate benefits of harvested Wood-based Construction Products (WCP), and to explore the role of policy in encouraging the use of these materials. In particular, this study explores...

Biodiversity: deforestation-free products on the EU market

The Commission proposes a new Regulation to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradation. Just counting from 1990 to 2020 the world has lost lost 420 million hectares...