Articles | Volume 19, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3263-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3263-2022
Research article
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13 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2022

The European forest carbon budget under future climate conditions and current management practices

Roberto Pilli, Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti, Werner A. Kurz, and Giacomo Grassi

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The EU Archive Index Database customised for the Carbon Budget Model (CBM-CFS3) Roberto Pilli, Stephen Kull, Viorel Blujdea, and Giacomo Grassi https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/jrc-cbm-eu-aidb

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To become carbon neutral by 2050, the European Union (EU27) forest C sink should increase to −450 Mt CO2 yr-1. Our study highlights that under current management practices (i.e. excluding any policy scenario) the forest C sink of the EU27 member states and the UK may decrease to about −250 Mt CO2eq yr-1 in 2050. The expected impacts of future climate change, however, add a considerable uncertainty, potentially nearly doubling or halving the sink associated with forest management.
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