The development of renewable energy sources is crucial for achieving the EU’s energy and climate targets. At the same time, such developments may give rise to conflicts with EU biodiversity goals, especially those related to nature conservation. With an aim to assist stakeholders in managing the...
This report highlights the importance of assessing emission mitigation from a multi-dimensional perspective. For this, a quantitative framework to analyse the potential contribution of different technological mitigation options in EU agriculture is described in this report. Within the boundaries...
The land use changes of the LUISA Territorial Reference Scenario (TRS) 2017 with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) option were evaluated for changes in soil organic C-stocks and subsequent emissions and removals of CO2. The procedure applied follows the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for a Tier 1 metho...
The aim of this study is to support the European Commission in the implementation of the LULUCF (land use, land use change, and forestry) Decision (Decision no 529/2013) with a focus on its Article 10 provisions. Under Article 10 Member States must submit information on their most relevant curre...
The coastal zone is an area of high interest, characterized by increased population density, hosting important commercial activities and constituting habitats of high socioeconomic value (Costanza, 1999). Nearshore areas also support diverse ecosystems that provide important habitats and sources...
The land supply elasticity with respect to the land price (land rent) is a key parameter in determining the land supply impacts of economic shocks and policies and the resulting impacts on food prices and food and nutrition security. For example, Elobeid at al., 2011 shows that halving the area ...
In July 2016, the Commission adopted a legal proposal (COM(2016) 479) for the inclusion of Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 energy and climate targets. In this proposal, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from Managed Forest Land in EU Member States will be...
The Modelling Framework for European regional seas developed at unit D02 of the JRC is applied to explore plausible consequences for the Mediterranean Sea marine ecosystems of a set of climate and socio-economic scenarios for the 2030 horizon. The main objective of this work is to test the capab...
