Improved GHG inventories for better forest policies: JRC work in 2020-2023
Final report on Forest Monitoring for Policies (ForMonPol) - Lot 1: Improved GHG Inventories for better Forest Policies (InFoPol)
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 (LULUCF) and other sectors, such as trade-offs and synergies among mitigation options. It highlighted an ongoing rapid decline of EU forest sink, which may hamper the fulfilment of the EU climate targets and needs rapid actions to be stopped and reversed. The JRC also made substantial improvements in flexibility and speed to the Carbon Budget Model (CBM), making it more fit to address future modelling needs. Under task “greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory development”, the JRC conducted extensive work on the annual EU LULUCF GHG inventory until 2022, supporting the MS in the quality and completeness of GHG inventories. However, GHG inventory gap analyses for each MS show that there is still room for significant improvement, especially in the light of the new reporting requirements under the latest EU LULUCF legislations. On task “tracking progress and compliance”, the JRC played a pivotal role in the adoption of Forest Reference Levels for 2021-2025 and supported the implementation of EU reporting and accounting requirements. Overall, confidence in LULUCF estimates has increased, thanks to the efforts by GHG inventory compilers, the EU/UN review process, and knowledge-sharing such as the annual JRC LULUCF workshops.
KOROSUO Anu;
ABAD VIÑAS Raul;
ROSSI Simone;
BLUJDEA Viorel;
PILLI Roberto;
FIORESE Giulia;
VIZZARRI Matteo;
MELO Joana;
ROMAN Rosa;
GRASSI Giacomo;
2023-12-12
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC135881
978-92-68-10182-7 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31772 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-772-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135881,
10.2760/74849 (online),
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