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BIOCLIMA: Assessing Land use, Climate and Biodiversity impacts of land-based climate mitigation and biodiversity policies in the EU

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  • 2. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
  • 3. ROR icon World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  • 4. EuroCARE GmbH

Description

This document is a technical report of the project BIOCLIMA: Assessing Land use, Climate and Biodiversity impacts of land-based climate mitigation and biodiversity policies in the EU. The project's overarching goal is to provide a robust ex-ante assessment of the possible impacts and synergies of current EU policies on biodiversity and climate. To achieve this goal, the consortium, in collaboration with the Project Steering Committee has designed specific land-use scenarios, indicators and analyses addressing the following questions:
  • What are the impacts on biodiversity of expected land-use under the Reference scenario, (that is, in absence of the Fit for 55 and EU Biodiversity Strategy) and how would measures aimed to achieve climate targets for the LULUCF sectors affect biodiversity compared to the Reference scenario?
  • What would be the contribution to climate mitigation of alternative potential implementations of habitat restoration and conservation targets under the EU Biodiversity Strategy?
  • What is the combined impact of climate and biodiversity policies on land-use change and associated emissions? Which combinations of climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation measures yield positive additive effects and which combinations have contrasting effects on land-use and GHG emissions?
  • What is the combined impact of climate and biodiversity policies on biodiversity indicators? Which combinations of climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation measures yield positive additive effects and which combinations have contrasting effects on biodiversity?
  • What are the most important data and modeling gaps that need to be addressed to improve the assessment of carbon stocks and biodiversity impacts from land-use policies?


Note: This is a first draft technical report (stand July 2024) and not the final accepted version. A final version will be uploaded at later stage in this repository.

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Funding

European Commission
BIOCLIMA Service Contract 07.0202/2020/836131/SER/ENV.D.2

Dates

Submitted
2024-08-01
Draft made available