CORDIS · ForestPaths
Co-designing Holistic Forest-based Policy Pathways for Climate Change Mitigation
- Code
ForestPaths- Programme
- HORIZON
- Call
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-09- Status
- SIGNED
- Period
- 2022-09-01 – 2027-02-28
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE | coordinator | FI | 846 125 € |
| VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. | participant | BE | 826 875 € |
| KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE | participant | DE | 620 250 € |
| LUONNONVARAKESKUS | participant | FI | 521 000 € |
| MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT | participant | NL | 454 625 € |
| PROSPEX INSTITUTE | participant | BE | 443 125 € |
| STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH | participant | NL | 407 250 € |
| LUNDS UNIVERSITET | participant | SE | 378 875 € |
| FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI | participant | IT | 319 750 € |
| PENSOFT PUBLISHERS | participant | BG | 290 000 € |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | participant | DE | 247 812 € |
| UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV | participant | RO | 131 850 € |
| OEKO-INSTITUT E.V. - INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE OEKOLOGIE | participant | DE | 107 250 € |
| TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY | associated partner | UK | |
| THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN | associated partner | UK | |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH | associated partner | UK | |
| JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION | associated partner | BE |
Description
The EU target to significantly reduce its emissions by 2030 and become climate neutral by 2050 requires new mitigation measures within all sectors. Clear policy pathways are needed that outline alternative trajectories for European forests and the forest-based sector towards a climate-neutral and resilient society and economy. ForestPaths will co-design, quantify and evaluate holistic forest-based policy pathways to optimize the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to climate change mitigation, while considering the need to adapt forests to climate change, conserve biodiversity and sustain forest ecosystem services provisioning. ForestPaths goes beyond the state-of-the-art by finding feasible Climate & Biodiversity-Smart (CBS) options across Europe, suggesting effective mitigation actions, and analysing their co-benefits and trade-offs with biodiversity and ecosystem services. ForestPaths engages with policymakers, forest practitioners, regional and national authorities, forest-based sector, certification bodies, researchers, and civil society in a co-design process to develop policy pathways and CBS options and maximize their practical usability, transparency, and trustworthiness. Openly available through an online policy support platform, pathways will be quantified based on a next-generation assessment framework of models, tools, and data. This framework will consider forest growth, climate change risks, as well as interactions between forests and the forest-based sector and economic system, supported by state-of-the art monitoring of forest disturbances, composition, and structure. The multidisciplinary consortium consists of research institutes, universities, and SMEs from across Europe, with leading expertise on climate, energy and biodiversity policies, complex system modelling, life-cycle analysis, remote sensing, disturbance ecology, forest and GHG inventories, social sciences, stakeholder process and communications.
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