Co-designing Holistic Forest-based Policy Pathways For Climate Change Mitigation

欧盟的目标是到2030年大幅减少其排放量，到2050年实现气候中和，这需要在所有部门采取新的缓解措施。需要明确的政策路径，勾勒出欧洲森林和以森林为基础的部门向气候中性和有复原力的社会和经济发展的替代轨迹。森林路径将共同设计、量化和评估以森林为基础的整体政策路径，以优化森林和以森林为基础的部门对减缓气候变化的贡献，同时考虑使森林适应气候变化、保护生物多样性和维持森林生态系统服务供应的必要性。ForestPaths超越了最先进的技术，在欧洲各地寻找可行的气候和生物多样性智能（CBS）方案，提出有效的缓解行动建议，并分析其与生物多样性和生态系统服务的共同利益和权衡。ForestPaths与政策制定者、森林从业者、地区和国家主管部门、森林部门、认证机构、研究人员和民间社会共同参与设计过程，制定政策路径和CBS选项，并最大限度地提高其实际可用性、透明度和可信度。途径将通过在线政策支持平台公开提供，并将基于下一代模型、工具和数据评估框架进行量化。该框架将考虑森林生长、气候变化风险，以及森林与以森林为基础的部门和经济系统之间的相互作用，并辅以对森林干扰、组成和结构的最新监测。该多学科联盟由来自欧洲各地的研究机构、大学和中小企业组成，在气候、能源和生物多样性政策、复杂系统建模、生命周期分析、遥感、干扰生态学、森林和温室气体清单、社会科学、利益相关者过程和通信方面拥有领先的专业知识。

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.