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ForestPaths wishes you a happy holiday season and a climate- & biodiversity-smart New Year!

Having already run for two months, it's high time we properly introduce ForestPaths. Get to know the project with our newest social media campaign! Discover the project's funding topic, get to know our valued partners, explore the expected results, learn more about our demo cases, and understand the objectives of our policy labs. Follow #MeetForestPaths and be a part of our journey. Now that ForestPaths has been up and running for2⃣months,...

ForestPaths has reached its first mini-milestone. After several brainstorming sessions, we are happy to finally share we have a logo! It was strategically designed to illustrate ForestPaths' aim and objectives for the next 4.5 years. We hope you like it as much as we do!

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.  Newly-funded Horizon Europe project ForestPaths will co-design, quantify and evaluate forest-based solutions to meet the EU’s Climate Targets for 2030 and 2050. Forests are vital to achieving the EU’s goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and becoming climate neutral by 2050. Forests and their products serve as carbon sinks, removing approximately 10% of...

This blog post has originally been published by ForestPaths' coordinator Hans Verkerk here.  The EU is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% in 2030 and to become climate neutral by 2050. One could argue that these targets are too little, too late, but if we are even to reach these figures, we need urgent and major reforms, involving the whole economy and all parts of society. Besides fighting climate change, we also...

How can we meet EU targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and become climate neutral by 2050? The newly-funded project ForestPaths coordinated by the European Forest Institute has a plan. And with the month of September upon us, the project's plan is now officially in action. ForestPaths will work on forest-based policy pathways optimising forests' contribution to climate change mitigation while conserving biodiversity and sustaining...