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What is the Index of Biodiversity Potential?
The Index of Biodiversity Potential (IBP) is an (indirect) biodiversity evaluation tool co-designed by foresters and researchers.
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What is forest resilience?
Forest resilience is the ability of forests and society to recover and adapt to environmental, climatic and societal changes.
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Forest monitoring: How do we know what is happening in Europe’s forests?
Forest monitoring has been constantly evolving through time, in tune with new scientific methods and with evolving societal expectations towards…
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What is the Index of Biodiversity Potential?
The Index of Biodiversity Potential (IBP) is an (indirect) biodiversity evaluation tool co-designed by foresters and researchers.
- Co-created solutions
What is forest resilience?
Forest resilience is the ability of forests and society to recover and adapt to environmental, climatic and societal changes.
- Resilient forests
Forest monitoring: How do we know what is happening in Europe’s forests?
Forest monitoring has been constantly evolving through time, in tune with new scientific methods and with evolving societal expectations towards forests.
- Resilient forests
How is forest biodiversity funded, now and in the future?
Forest financing still linked to timber
- Sustainable economy
How can we monitor carbon in forests?
Effective monitoring quantifies carbon sequestration, guides policy, and strengthens the credibility of climate mitigation.
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What is a biocity?
A biocity is a new term created to describe a city that is “hosted by nature”.
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What is carbon farming in forests?
Explore carbon farming activities, practices and co-benefits
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To manage or not to manage – how can we support forests to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts?
Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle that can help to mitigate climate change.
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How can a forest-based bioeconomy support biodiversity and climate neutrality?
Forests and forestry play a key role in climate change mitigation.
- Sustainable economy
What is closer-to-nature forestry?
Closer-to-nature forestry promotes the diversity of forest components, structures and processes characteristic of natural forests and cultural woodlands at different scales
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