Land, biomass and ocean: a deliberation tool for European trade-offs
A multi-stakeholder European research project, in which research institutes work with policymakers and other stakeholders, on how Europe should allocate land, biomass and marine resources, and on a tool to weigh the trade-offs.
Project facts
| Programme | Land and ecosystem transitions |
|---|---|
| Status | Ongoing What the status labels mean |
| Methods | Integrated modelling and model coupling · Biophysical modelling |
| Scale | Land system |
| Geography | European Union, to 2050 |
| Context | Multi-stakeholder European research |
The question
How should Europe allocate land, biomass and marine resources between food, materials, energy and nature, and what does each choice cost in emissions, water, biodiversity and food availability?
What the figures leave out
Policies on food, energy, materials and nature are often set one at a time, as if each could use the same land. Each claim on land, biomass or sea has a cost for the others, including the carbon the land could otherwise hold.
Approach
The partners couple models of land use, biomass, carbon opportunity cost and biodiversity, and build a deliberation tool so that policymakers and other non-specialists can compare choices and their costs. Millennia's contribution draws on its carbon-opportunity-cost and forestry work.
Where it stands
Ongoing.
The decision it informs
EU land, food, bioeconomy and biodiversity policy, for example the share of land to protect.
INSTRUMENTS · A deliberation tool for policymakers.
What the work required
- Science shared between research institutes and stakeholders across Europe
- Carbon-opportunity-cost methods
- Forestry and wood evaluation
- Interactive decision tools for non-specialists
How it connects
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