This report describes the work under AA "Forest Monitoring for Policies", Lot 1 (Improved GHG Inventories for better Forest Policies). Within task "thematic policy action development", the JRC clarified connections between the accounting in the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector...

The objective of this report is to present and discuss the results from the Administrative Arrangement (AA) "LULUCF 2030", aimed at supporting DG CLIMA on the following issues: 1) Implementation the EU LULUCF Decision 529/2013, especially with regard to evaluating the estimates reported by MS on...

This report is the fourth comprehensive public report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) entirely dedicated to the topic of biomass in its many shapes and forms. This is the ten-year anniversary edition of the JRC Biomass Mandate. In the sections that follow, we discuss the...

Regulation (EU) 2018/841 sets the accounting rules for the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector for the years 2021-2030. In the first compliance period 2021-2025, the accounting for managed forest land is made by comparing the reported net emissions to a projected forest...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture (mainly methane and nitrous oxide emissions) and from Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF, mainly carbon dioxide emissions) have been traditionally addressed by different legislative initiatives, estimated through different accounting...

This report is an attempt to develop a modelling framework integrating different sectoral stand-alone models used at the JRC for policy impact assessment in the fields of agriculture, forestry, land use change and energy. The proposed quantitative framework should improve the capability of...

The land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector is a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory sector that covers the emissions of GHGs from and their removal by terrestrial carbon stocks, living biomass, dead organic matter and soil organic carbon according to six main anthropogenic land use...

This report is a supplement to the EU Ecosystem Assessment (Maes et al., 2020). The assessment is carried out by Joint Research Centre, European Environment Agency, DG Environment, and the European Topic Centres on Biological Diversity and on Urban, Land and Soil Systems. This supplement...

Europe's ecosystems, on which we depend for food, timber, clean air, clean water, climate regulation and recreation, suffer from unrelenting pressures caused by intensive land or sea use, climate change, pollution, overexploitation and invasive alien species. Ensuring that ecosystems achieve or...

This report contains a comparative assessment of biomass burning data reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by five selected Member States with the information contained in the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). The aim is to verify data...