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AUTHOR
Johanna Lundström
Climate targets in European timber-producing countries conflict with goals on forest ecosystem services and biodiversity
The role of increased timber harvests in reaching climate mitigation targets for European countries will be limited if the protection of forest ecosystem services and biodiversity is to be achieved, suggests an empirical forest model driven by future scenarios to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C in 2100.The European Union (EU) set clear climate change mitigation targets to reach climate neutrality, accounting for forests and their woody biomass resources. We investigated the consequences of increased harvest demands resulting from EU climate targets. We analysed the impacts on national policy objectives for forest ecosystem services and biodiversity through empirical forest simulation and mul…
Blue target classification and Heureka
Forest and its waters are closely connected and dependent on each other. This means that management activities in the forest affect water quality. To be able to take as effective consideration as possible it is important to have guidelines that can guide actions to areas and activities with the highest effect at the lowest cost. Blue target classification is a classification system for water environments developed by WWF in cooperation with Swedish forest companies. The system has been evaluated and is considered having good potential for improving water quality consideration within forestry. But for the classification system to be able to be utilised on large scale, and to be as effective …