Promoting management practices that enhance the carbon sink role of Europe’s forests

The report ‘Carbon farming in the european forestry sector ’, led by the European Forest Institute (EFI) in collaboration with INRAE and AgroParisTech in France, shows how carbon farming practices can increase the carbon sink capacity of European forests to help the European Union achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

Chapter 4 of this report was inspired by the work carried out by Oliver Frings, Jens Abildtrup‘s PhD student at BETA, when he was recruited as part of the PERCEVAL project – PERCEiving and VALuing ecosystem services in forests.

The aim of this project is to work with the Des Hommes et Des Arbres (DHDA) collective to develop a system for valuing ecosystem services in forests (SEF), including a platform for exchanging environmental services in the Grand-Est region.

This contribution to the EFI report, dedicated to carbon sequestration, is one of the first outcomes of the PERCEVAL project, co-funded by INRAE’s TETRAE Programme and the Grand Est Region.

To find out more:

👉 Read the press release: https://efi.int/news/new-report-carbon-farming-european-forestry-sector-2024-10-16

👉 Access the EFI report: https://efi.int/sites/default/files/files/publication-bank/2024/efi_fstp17_2024.pdf

👉 Visit the PERCEVAL project website: https://msh-lorraine.fr/perceval/