Introduction
Find out more about how ForestPaths will provide clear forest-based policy pathways and gain insight into the project’s progress so far.
ForestPaths collaborates with several EU-funded projects. Discover how we are collectively progressing towards clear policy pathways for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable ecosystem services in European forests.
Key Areas
Events Timeline
Policy and stakeholder requirements
D6.2 Synthesis of EU-level policy and stakeholder needs for the forestry sector
Finland
Pan-European forest composition and structure maps
D2.2 European forest composition and structure maps
Drivers of forest disturbances
D2.3 Drivers of forest disturbances in Europe
Map data products
D2.5 Map data products
Italy
Second Policy Lab
The goal is to elicit visions of European forests and the forest-based sector and policy actions to achieve them
Model of European forest owners
D3.2 Fully calibrated agent-based model of European forest owners
High conservation value forests in Europe
D2.4 High conservation value forests in Europe
Global impacts model
D3.4 Recomm. for considering implications of forest management in IAMs/ESMs
ForestPaths database
D4.3 Database with the substitution and biodiversity factors
Policy narratives
D6.3 Narrative analysis of main policy pathways
Pathways scenarios
D5.1 Simulation framework and database structure
Simulation results
D5.2 Land use & management, climate mitigation potential and policy actions for European forests
Mitigation potential of forest-based products
D5.3 Overall mitigation potential of forest-based products and energy in the bioeconomy
Effective forest management options
D5.4 Effective forest management options securing biodiversity and ecosystem provisions in Europe and globally
Biogenic carbon
D4.4 New impact assessment method for biogenic carbon and biodiversity in LCA
Fourth Policy Lab
The goal is to provide policy recommendations derived from the pathway analysis and evaluation
Policy pathways
D5.5 Policy pathways, trade-offs/co-benefits
CANOPY platform
Official launch of the platform
Policy recommendations
D6.4 Synthesis of policy pathways results and policy recommendations
Policy engagement
D6.1 Policy Engagement Forum’s activities
ForestPaths Final conference
Latest news
13 July 2026
A study involving ForestPaths researchers, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution looks at how...
2 July 2026
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is expanding its bioeconomy team with three ne...
29 June 2026
A long-term study co-funded ForestPaths, involving researchers from CREAF, the U...
29 June 2026
A new study co-funded by ForestPaths reveals that forest reburns, which are ...
17 June 2026
On June 11, ForestPaths partners Amelie Müller and Timo Diepers presented the bw_timex package and t...
16 June 2026
ForestPaths has been included in the latest edition of the OptFor-EU project newsletter. OptFor-EU i...
11 June 2026
ForestPaths partners took part in the EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop on 27-28 May in Copenhagen. The two-da...
1 June 2026
The fourth ForestPaths feature has been included in the May edition of the EFI Mediterranean Network...
1 June 2026
ForestPaths project partners, namely Technical University of Munich and VITO,&nb...
28 May 2026
Researchers, forestry professionals and 18 PhD students from 10 universities came together for an in...
