Enhancing Europe's land carbon sink: status and prospects (2025)

This report provides a description of the land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sector, as a relatively new sector in EU climate governance. It assesses the sector in terms of reported GHG emissions and removals, based on information provided in the 2024 and 2025 EU greenhouse gas inventories as well as latest available projections data (submissions 2023-2024). The report provides insights on ways to mitigate GHG emissions and enhance removals in the LULUCF sector, and what enabling conditions are most relevant to upscale options. Read more here...