Research · 30 June 2025 · European Environment Agency
Enhancing Europe's land carbon sink: status and prospects
Selected by José Miguel Medeiros
Emissions and removals in EU land use and forestry, the measures that can raise removals on forest and farm land, and the business models open to farmers and foresters.
Key figure
30% smaller: the EU's average net land carbon sink in 2014 to 2023 than in the decade before, mostly because of forests.
About the publisher
The EU agency that gives independent information on the environment. It compiles the EU greenhouse gas inventory, land use and forestry included.
Useful for
Forest carbon developers and their investors, for the EU policy and data behind carbon removals.
Credit and license European Environment Agency (2025), Enhancing Europe's land carbon sink: status and prospects, EEA Report 17/2024, doi: 10.2800/2836317. EEA, 2025, CC BY 4.0. We host this copy unchanged, under the publisher's open license.
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