Key publications on Bioeconomy and climate change

This page displays a non-exhaustive list of relevant publications, made publicly accessible by EU institutions and international organisations

• JRC Forest Carbon Model: Scientific Approach, Methodology and Use (2026): The JRC Forest Carbon Model allows quantification of forest status dynamics and GHG fluxes associated with forest management.
• European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change - Scaling up carbon dioxide removals – Recommendations for navigating opportunities and risks in the EU (2025): Discover key actions for the EU to accelerate the deployment of carbon dioxide removals
• Securing the carbon sink for the EU's climate ambition (2025): Learn how the ability of forests to act as carbon sinks is rapidly declining and which actions should be undertaken.
• Technical corrections for the forest reference levels under the LULUCF regulation (EU) (2024): This report recalls the need to technical corrections for EU LULUCF accounting.
• OECD - Carbon management: bioeconomy and beyond (2023): Know more on how fossil carbon resources can be replaced by bio-based carbon resources, especially biomass.
• The role of forests in the EU climate policy: are we on the right track? (2023): This scientific study explores the development of the EU forest sink with relation to the climate commitments.
• FAO - Forest products in the global bioeconomy (2022): Learn how forest products contribute in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products, strengthening sustainable development.
• EEA - Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory: Read the Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory from 1990 onwards and the latest inventory report.
• Climate benefits of the use of harvested wood products in the construction sector (2021): Know more about the climate benefits of using wood-based materials for construction and explore the role of policy in encouraging the use of these materials.
• Forest-based bioeconomy and climate change mitigation (2021): Learn more about the view of the European Forest Institute on the climate change mitigation potential of forests and wood products.
• Global forest above-ground biomass pool (2021): Discover the global forest above-ground biomass pool estimated from remote sensing and explore the underlying data.
• Forest reference levels under Regulation (EU) 2018/841 for the period 2021-2025 (2021): Learn about the main technical findings of the assessment of the Forest Reference Levels proposed by Member States.
• Boosting the EU forest-based bioeconomy: Market, climate, and employment impacts (2021): Discover how the EU forest-based bioeconomy can create new jobs and mitigate climate change and the synergies and trade-offs between these objectives.
• The use of woody biomass for energy production in the EU (2021): Find out what are the win-win solutions on the use of forest biomass for energy production.
• Climate Change and Land (2019): Read the IPCC report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
• Substitution effects of wood-based products in climate change mitigation (2018): Learn what are the greenhouse gas effects and limitations of various wood products compared to alternative materials, and discover the main research from this report by the European Forest Institute.
• Guidance on cascading use of biomass with selected good practice examples on woody biomass (2018): Access this collection of best practices on cascading from a range of stakeholders, EU research projects, studies and other sources.

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