💡Tools for early detection of forest pests only make a difference if forest managers and plant health authorities can put them to use. 🌱 How research makes the jump into practice and policy is the focus of the webinar by @purpest-eu.bsky.social on 30 Sept. ⬇️ Register by 29 Sept ⬇️

PurPest EU@purpest-eu.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 There's still time to join our next webinar on 📅 30 September 2026 | 🕥 10:30 CEST (UTC+2) to explore how research moves into innovation, policy and practice. 👉 Register at www.purpest.eu/news/webinar...

📡 Detection models are only as reliable as the field data used to validate them. 🌱 Nice work by our sister project @stella-horizon-eu.bsky.social, inspecting plane trees at high risk of Ceratocystis platani, which is also one of FORSAID's target species.

STELLA@stella-horizon-eu.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌿 Field validation in Evia, Greece. On 16-17 September, AUA & BOKU joined forces at the STELLA forest pilot to collect ground-truth data for model validation and inspect plane trees in areas at high risk for Ceratocystis platani. 🛰️ #PlantHealth #HorizonEU #STELLAProject #ForestHealth

👀 Do you know what bw_timex is? Amelie Müller (@vito.be, @unileiden.bsky.social ) presents this tool developed within ForestPaths. bw_timex is used for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment - it makes your LCA use the right data for the right point in time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_R3...

Introducing bw_timex: Interview with Amelie Müller

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The day closed with an interactive discussion led by Sarah Adams (@efieuropeanforest.bsky.social) that gathered ideas for ForestPaths' final papers, using a free-form brainstorm grouped live into themes for discussion.

Next up, Tsenka Garova (@pensoft.net) presented ForestPaths' dissemination work from the past year and gave a preview of what's ahead - the CANOPY platform and more results-focused outputs. forestpaths.eu/canopy-platf...

CANOPY platform

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The second day of ForestPaths' 4th AGM opened with Valentino Govigli (CMCC) outlining plans to synthesise ForestPaths' results into actionable policy recommendations for decision-makers, practitioners, and other stakeholders.

@mikkopel.bsky.social (@luke.fi) presented the current status of integrated pathway results, combining forest and wood-product carbon balances at the European level. The work explores mitigation, biodiversity, and trade-offs across food production, employment, and gross value added.

@jcdoelman.bsky.social (@nlenvironagency.bsky.social), Cleo Orfanidou (@efieuropeanforest.bsky.social) and Giuseppe Cardellini (@vito.be) outlined forest-based mitigation modelling, combining EFI-GTM, IMAGE, aiphoria, and Bw_timex for ForestPaths' six policy pathways.

@tompugh.bsky.social (@lund-university.bsky.social) shared forest management modelling work using GLOBIO, EFISCEN-space, and LPJ-GUESS, looking at biodiversity, carbon sinks, and harvest levels across ForestPaths' pathways and exploratory cases. 🌲

Joanna Raymond (@kit.edu) provided an overview of land-use modelling work, using three models (CRAFTY, PLUM, and IMAGE) to analyse land-use change, forest management, climate mitigation, and ecosystem services for ForestPaths' pathways.

The meeting continued with Gloria Marsano and Marc Gramberger (Prospex Institute), who gave an update on Policy Lab 4. The final lab will evaluate forest policy pathways, compare trade-offs across visions, and shape policy recommendations. 🌲 More on the policy labs: forestpaths.eu/policy-labs

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ForestPaths' 4th Annual General Meeting is taking place today and tomorrow, online. Coordinator Hans Verkerk (@efieuropeanforest.bsky.social) opened with a look at the work done in the past year and what's ahead in the project's final 6 months. Follow along for more updates! 🌲

📢 Registration is now open for the final event of our sister project Forest Navigator! 👉 Learn more: www.forestnavigator.eu/news/event/f...

ForestNavigator Final Event

The ForestNavigator Final Event will take place in Brussels on 13–14 October 2026. The programme is now available and registration is open.

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‼️New ForestPaths video now out! Mohamed Byari from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus Alpin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen talks about his work on the CRAFTY model and explains how it could help shape policy. 👉 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebis...

The CRAFTY model: Mohamed Byari

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🌍 A new article looks at how Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are used to build prospective Life Cycle Assessments (pLCAs). forestpaths.eu/news/researc...

Researchers propose recommendations for the use of IAMs in prospective LCA

An article led by Aaron Paris from the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, and with contributions from ForestPaths partner Amelie Müller, offers practice-oriented recom...

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📢 Researchers have released a new global dataset that tracks land use and land cover from 1960 through 2100. The dataset offers finer spatial and temporal resolution than earlier products. It also accounts for local variation in how landscapes change. forestpaths.eu/news/new-dat...

🤩 Happy fourth birthday to us! We've had so many achievements and milestones over the years, one post wouldn't do us justice 😎, which is why we'll give you more information on what we've done over the past year in the days to come, feeding you bits & bops, here & there.

bw_timex is an open-source Python package for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment. It accounts for how supply chains, technologies, and emissions change over time - such as the increasing share of renewable energy in the future. 👉 github.com/brightway-lc... #ForestPathsModels

What are the tools used within ForestPaths? aiphoria is an open-source Python package by @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social for tracking wood flows across value chains. It traces wood products from forest to final use, maps circularity, and quantifies associated carbon stocks. #ForestPathsModels

❓What is EFI-GTM? This global wood market model simulates how producers and consumers across different regions trade and respond to changes in supply and demand. 👉 Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

In today's #ForestPathsModels feature: LandSyMM - a global land use framework linking forest management, wood demand and economic systems to assess the biophysical and socio-economic impacts of forest policy. forestpaths.eu/models

#ForestPathsModels zooms in on PLUM - a model that simulates how demand for food, bioenergy and wood drives land use change, balancing competing pressures across different policy scenarios. 👉 Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

🌲Next in #ForestPathsModels: IMAGE - an integrated assessment model simulating how timber and agricultural demand drive land use change and carbon emissions from 1970 to 2100, and connecting forest dynamics to the global climate picture. 👉 Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

Are you interested in the potential of forest modelling for climate change mitigation? Thomas Pugh (@lund-university.bsky.social) and @jcdoelman.bsky.social (@nlenvironagency.bsky.social) talk about the role of modelling within ForestPaths. 📹 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG19...

Forest modelling for climate change mitigation: Interview with Thomas Pugh and Jonathan Doelman

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#ForestPathsModels introduces GLOBIO, a model that simulates how land use, climate change, and nitrogen deposition affect biodiversity and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, pollination, and recreation across Europe. 🔎 Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

🌍We are continuing our #ForestPathsModels series with RCA-GUESS - a regional Earth system model coupling LPJ-GUESS with an atmospheric model to simulate how forests influence the climate around them, not just the other way around. Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

#ForestPathsModels meets CRAFTY - a model simulating how land users make management decisions and how policy shapes their choices across forestry, agriculture and conservation. 👉Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

🌲 ForestPaths at the EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop in Copenhagen (27–28 May) Our partners contributed to a gathering of researchers, modellers, and policy experts advancing greenhouse gas reporting and forest carbon accounting across Europe. forestpaths.eu/news/eeajrc-...

EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop brings together forest carbon experts in Copenhagen

ForestPaths partners took part in the EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop on 27-28 May in Copenhagen. The two-day event brought together researchers, modellers and policy experts from across Europe to exchange th...

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🪵 Meet EFISCEN-Space - a forest projection model grounded in National Forest Inventory (NF) data, responsive to climate scenarios and modular enough to simulate carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe. #ForestPathsModels Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models

#ForestPathsModels kicks off with LPJ-GUESS - a model that tracks how tree species establish, grow and compete across European forest ecosystems. 🌲 Enhanced within ForestPaths to better capture disturbances, forest composition and management practices. 👉 Learn more: forestpaths.eu/models