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  Earlier estimation of developments in the CO2 storage capacity of forests: categorising the results of the German National Forest Inventory

  Blog 10/22/2024

  The fourth German National Forest Inventory published on 8 October 2024 provides comprehensive results on the condition and development of forests for the period of 2017 to 2022. From a climate protection perspective, forests emitted more CO2 than they absorbed during this period. Below we classify the results and use our model FABio-Forest to show as an example the importance of forest modelling for climate policy.

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  Land-use transition - Forests need protection

  Blog 02/15/2024

  How do we organise agriculture in an environmentally friendly and climate-resilient way? How do we feed ourselves in a way that is good for our health and the planet? How do we harmonise forest protection and sustainable timber use? And how do we utilise the available land against the backdrop of competing demands? In short: How can we achieve a turnaround in agriculture to protect the climate and biodiversity? The Oeko-Institut's policy brief answers these and other questions.

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  Land-use transition – Strategies and solutions for sustainable land use

  Blog 01/25/2024

  How do we organise agriculture in an environmentally friendly and climate-resilient way? How do we feed ourselves in a way that is good for our health and the planet? How do we harmonise forest protection and sustainable timber use? And how do we utilise the available land against the backdrop of competing demands? In short: How can we achieve a turnaround in agriculture to protect the climate and biodiversity? The Oeko-Institut's policy brief answers these and other questions.

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  Transcript of the Podcast: Can the Forests still be saved?

  01/25/2023

  The Podcast with Dr Hannes Böttcher for reading.

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  RED III greenhouse gas balance methodology: an important element of the IPCC rules is missing

  Blog 08/01/2022

  The methodology for GHG balances in the Renewable Energy Directive RED II and in the proposal for amendment of RED III has a major gap in this regard. This blog piece explains the technicalities.

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  Biomass for heating in the context of the fit-for-55 package: How to ensure sustainability?

  Blog 06/21/2022

  What measures are needed to make the building sector climate neutral while ensuring that biomass is only used within sustainable limits?

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  Erosion of European sustainability requirements for bioenergy

  08/21/2018

  [Translate to English:] Extending the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) on solid and gaseous biomass is being used to roll back sustainability requirements. This is the wrong path, say Dr. Klaus Hennenberg and colleagues, in their recent article in Nature Ecology and Evolution.