The ClimWood2030 study, commissioned by DG CLIMA of the European Commission, quantifies the five ways in which the EU forest sector contributes to climate change mitigation: carbon sequestration and storage in EU forests, carbon storage in harvested wood products in the EU, substitution of wood...

Der Klimawandel zählt zu den zentralen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dem umweltfreundlichen, CO2-speichernden und ressourcenschonenden Rohstoff Holz kommt bei den Anstrengungen, den unerwünschten Folgen dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Mit der Suche...

This report summarises existing knowledge on costs of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical and sub‐tropical forests. First, the scope of forest‐related cost studies and background information on definitions of and obstacles for SFM are given (Sections 1 and 2). The main part of...

The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020. Common guidelines and commitments have to be developed for two distinctive groups of countries. On the one hand, there are developed countries with...