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

欧盟的目标是到2030年大幅减少排放，到2050年实现气候中立，这需要在所有部门采取新的缓解措施。需要有明确的政策路径，勾勒出欧洲森林和森林部门迈向气候中立和有弹性的社会和经济的替代轨迹。ForestPath将共同设计、量化和评价全面的森林政策路径，以优化森林和森林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、养护生物多样性和维持森林生态系统服务提供的必要性。ForestPath超越了最先进的水平，在整个欧洲找到了可行的气候和生物多样性-智能(CBS)选项，建议了有效的缓解行动，并分析了它们与生物多样性和生态系统服务的共同好处和权衡。ForestPath与政策制定者、森林从业人员、区域和国家当局、森林部门、认证机构、研究人员和民间社会一起参与共同设计进程，以制定政策路径和CBS备选方案，并最大限度地提高其实际可用性、透明度和可信度。路径通过在线政策支持平台公开提供，将基于模型、工具和数据的下一代评估框架进行量化。这一框架将考虑森林增长、气候变化风险以及森林与森林部门和经济系统之间的相互作用，并辅之以对森林干扰、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、利益攸关方流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.