Interim report on project’s response to European Green Deal and New EU Forest Strategy
Τhe OptFor-EU project forms one of the enablers towards optimized forest management in Europe within the guidelines of the European Green Deal and New EU Forest Strategy 2030. OptFor-EU, being a project under the Horizon Europe programme, is developing innovative solutions that contribute to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future. In this framework, the project published […]
Enhancing Climate Resilience in Forest Management: Recommendations from OptFor-EU – Policy Brief #2
Forests are vital for climate mitigation and adaptation, yet their management faces numerous challenges due to institutional gaps, policy fragmentation, and governance inefficiencies. The OptFor-EU project has identified these challenges and proposed solutions to foster sustainable forest management and enhance resilience across forest-based value chains. This brief summarises the key findings and recommendations to address […]
Novel set of Essential Forest Mitigation Indicators (EFMIs)
This report from OptFor-EU presents the carefully developed set of Essential Forest Mitigation Indicators (EFMIs), designed to guide forest managers, researchers and policymakers in assessing and enhancing the potential of carbon mitigation of forests through informed management practices. The EFMIs were created through a bottom-up collaborative process that brought together scientific experts, forestry professionals and […]
Development of an open-access code to harmonize forest-climate data
The latest OptFor-EU report “Development of an Open-Access Code to Harmonize Forest-Climate Data” introduces a powerful data harmonisation framework, ensuring that diverse forest and climate datasets can be integrated, compared, and applied effectively in forest management and climate modeling. This report presents a standardized approach to collecting and processing critical climate and forest data sets. […]
New Forest Management Practices (FMP) in forest models and implications for land cover change parametrisation in climate models
This report from the OptFor-EU project highlights advancements in forest management practices within its Case Study Areas (Austria, Romania, and Italy) and explores their implications under varying climate scenarios. The report provides key insights on the integration of these practices into climate models, highlighting the importance of forest management in mitigating climate change impacts and reinforcing the […]
Forest Management Practices and their relevance in case study areas
In a research, OptFor-EU investigates forest management techniques in eight case study areas (Norway, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Romania, Spain, Italy). The publication investigates the significance of these approaches, providing a detailed modelling methodology as well as a literature evaluation. In addition, it provides detailed explanations of current management strategies, as well as coverage […]
Gridded dataset of European Forest Types
This OptFor-EU report aims to showcase the methodology used to generate gridded European forest types (EFTs) maps across Europe. The first section introduces the Forest Types (FT) classification schemes existing in Europe, highlighting their strengths and limitations. It also includes a detailed overview of the EFTs classification used for creating the related map. Each EFTs […]