Reaching the EU’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 will require eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere. As forests provide a natural solution to remove carbon, the EU strongly relies on its forests to achieve its climate neutrality target through carbon sequestration in forests and soils, retaining carbon in wood products and avoiding emissions by using wood-based products instead of fossil products.
“Carbon farming” practices aim to enhance the carbon storage in forests and soils. The EU has put in place a framework to implement carbon farming initiatives and is developing a regulatory framework for the accounting and certification of carbon removals from the atmosphere. However, forest types differ considerably across Europe, and forests are also threatened by the impacts of climate change, including disturbances such as pest outbreaks, fires, winds, etc. Monitoring additionality created through carbon farming, sink permanence and the prevention of leakages are also crucial challenges.
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