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Division of Forest and Forest Resources

Implications for Norwegian forestry of the EU's Green Deal

Finished Last updated: 15.11.2024
End: dec 2024
Start: jan 2022

The purpose of the project is to map, identify, and analyze implications for the forestry sector of the EU's Green Deal (European Green Deal, EGD), as well as to communicate this knowledge.

Start - end date 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024
Division Division of Forest and Forest Resources
Department Forest and Climate

The EU's Green Deal (European Green Deal, EGD) is a roadmap for a societal transformation in the EU and Europe aiming for climate neutrality (net-zero) by 2050, an economic reform with the ambition to decouple economic growth from resource use, and an action plan for social levelling. Through the project, we will identify, monitor and analyze implications for the forestry sector for key elements of the EGD.

Work Package 1 – European Green Deal

Identify, monitor and analyze the central political processes of importance for the development of Norwegian forest policy. Establish a structured arrangement for analyses of political processes in the EU on the development in Norwegian forest policy.

Work Package 2 – Consequences for the development of forest resources in Norway

Quantitative studies of possible consequences for the development of forest resources at the national level.

Work Package 3 – Consequences for the forestry industry and society. Challenges and opportunities

WP 3 will include analyses based on results from WP 1 and 2. While WP 2 focused on the forest resource alone, here we will acknowledge that the forest is part of the LULUCF pillar and that the path to the goal of net-zero (and later increased uptake) will also be influenced by developments in the other parts of the sector. This includes seeing the forest as part of the LULUCF pillar, and the overall scope for achieving the net-zero goal.

Work Package 4: Communication

Communication to decision-makers, administration, industry actors, NGOs, and the general public is an important part of the project.

Work Package 5: Synthesis

Publications in the project