ForestPaths turns 4
ForestPaths marks its fourth anniversary on 1 September 2026. Over the past four years, the project has worked to develop policy pathways that help European forests advance climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem goals. Here, you can read about what the team accomplished this past year.
We begin with the project's recent key achievements:
- The ForestPaths European tree genus map became available as an open, early-access dataset
- The third Policy Lab refined three visions for Europe's forests and mapped out the policy pathways to reach them under two contrasting future scenarios
- We released ForestPaths Features #4 on the effects of forest management on animal biodiversity
- EFI released a policy brief on the future of European forest disturbance regimes based on a ForestPaths publication in Science
- The third episode of ForestChats came out
- We released interviews with project partners Gloria Marsano, Clint Richards, and Thomas Pugh and Jonathan Doelman
We joined our sister projects PathFinder and ForestNavigator for the third edition of the ForestTalks webinar.
In the past 12 months, ForestPaths consortium members published several impactful scientific papers:
- Global assessment of landscape pattern changes
- New framework for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment
- Global changes in wood demand and forest management
- New module for predicting bark beetle damage in LPJ-GUESS
- Forest reburns in Southern Europe
- Comparison of protected and non-protected forests when it comes to harvesting and disturbances
- An analysis of wood flows across the EU
- Vegetation Demographic Models and improving understanding of forest recovery, structure and carbon dynamics
- Effects of forest disturbances on large herbivore habitats
- Changes in Europe's forest disturbance regimes
- Recommendations for the use of IAMs in prospective LCA
- High-resolution land-use maps
- Effect of wildfires on European forest types
Finally, ForestPaths partners participated in a significant number of events, including but not limited to:
- International Summer School on natural disturbances
- EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop in Copenhagen
- Workshop on woodland carbon footprint in Cambridge
- ISIE webinar
- Training school developing practical skills in the LPJ-GUESS model in Beijing, China
- Climate-Smart Forestry workshop in Wageningen, the Netherlands
Stay tuned for more updates on our project website and via LinkedIn and Bluesky.