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The European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) are pleased to host the 22nd LULUCF Workshop, an annual forum that brings together policymakers, technical experts, and members of the scientific community. The workshop supports knowledge exchange and cooperation across Europe in the field of land use, land‑use change and forestry (LULUCF).

Organisers

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The European Environment Agency (EEA)

European Commission Joint Research Center

EEA/JRC LULUCF Workshop 2026

In presence and online, 27-28 May 2026, EEA, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen (Conference Room)

Agenda

Day 1, 27th May 2026

9: 00-9:30

Registration

9: 30-9:45

Welcome and introduction

  • Suzanne Dael, HoU GHG inventory and Carbon Removals (EEA)
  • Greet Janssens-Maenhout, HoU Land and Climate (JRC)

9:45-10:30

  • EU GHG inventory 2026, related activities and preparation for 2027 (Peter Iversen, Lucia Perugini, EEA)
  • Policy developments in LULUCF and CRCF (Christian Holzleitner, Head of Unit C3, DG Clima)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-13:00

Session 2: Moving to higher tiers: applications and country cases

  • Possible improvements for soil carbon and N2O estimations (Tommaso Chiti, ETC/CA -CMCC, EEA)
  • Preselection of a soil organic carbon model for mineral soils in Austrian croplands and grasslands (Alicia Hernandez-Mora, UBA AT)
  • Research program on greenhouse gas emissions in peatland (Gilles Erkens, Deltares NL)
  • Evaluation of four different process-based soil carbon models (ECOSSE, N14CP, CENTURY, Roth-C) for their ability to replicate observed SOC dynamics in the UK over a 40 year period. (Amanda Thomson, CEH UK)
  • (Challenges in) moving to higher tiers for settlement soils (Roland Fuß, Thünen Institute DE)
  • Guidance for reporting and estimating GHG emissions and removals of biomass in Settlements (Mélanie Juillard ETC/CM CITEPA- Maria Ricci ETC/DI S4E - EEA)

13:00-14:30

Lunch break – EEA Canteen

14:30-16:00

Session 3: Moving to higher tiers: applications and country cases

  • Tier 2 approach for Flooded Land (as part of Wetlands) using the 2019 IPCC Guidelines (Yonah Berger Barnett, WuR NL)
  • LIFE CROLIS: Croatian approach to historic land cover changes, (Vanja Wagner, CRO-MATH-IN, HR)
  • Facing key challenges in greenhouse gas accounting in the land use and forestry sector in Greece and Bulgaria. The LIFE LULUCF Atlas project & Moja Global collaboration (Despoina Vlachaki NTUA-GR, Asger Olesen, Moja Global)
  • Towards evidence-based clarity in peatland GHG emissions: observations and research plans in Latvia. (Aldis Butlers, SILAVA LV)

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:00

Session 4: LULUCF: post-2030 Framework, Tools and EU Data Support

  • JRC tools and data as enablers for the CRCF: prospects for transferability to national‑scale reporting (Mirco Migliavacca, JRC)
  • Analysis of LULUCF drivers and trends of GHG projections (Merlin Mayer, UBA-AT/ EEA)

17:00-18:00

Launch of the EEA GHG Knowledge hub and LULUCF Instance publication and social event

  • EEA GHG Knowledge hub (Lucia Perugini, Herdis Gudbrandsdottir EEA)
  • LULUCF Instance (Tobias Langanke, EEA)

19:00

Social dinner

Day 2, 28th May 2026

9:00- 10:30

Session 5: Moving to higher tiers - Forest models and climate impacts

  • Utilizing the CBM4 to meet spatial forest GHG reporting requirements (Benjamin Hudson, NRCan, Canada)
  • Twenty countries semi-high resolution forest biomass and soil carbon projections with EFISCEN-space based on individual trees from 400,000 NFI plots (Gert-Jan Nabuurs, WUR, NL)
  • Integrating climate change and natural disturbances across modelling scales (Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, IIASA)
  • The JRC Forest Carbon Model, EU-CBM-HAT, with a focus on simulating climate effects (Viorel Blujdea and Gonzalo Oton, JRC)
  • Climatic anomaly impacts on the annual growth variation in Swedish forests (Alex A. Mensah, SLU, SE)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-13:00

Session 6: Updates from research projects

  • Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe in the 21st century (Werner Rammer, TUM, DE)

    • Updates from Horizon Europe and other research activities

    • Updates from PathFinder (Murali Thoppil, UB, UK)
    • ForestNavigator early results: towards robust policy pathways for the forest sector (Fulvio Di Fulvio and Mykola Gusti, IIASA)
    • The use of CLMS products for improving the spatialization of greenhouse gases emissions from LULUCF and agriculture sectors, AVENGER (Angela Fiore, ISPRA, IT)
    • Following ForestPaths: a project update (Hans Verkerk, EFI)
    • Updates from FORWARDS/NextGenCarbon (Ruben Valbuena, SLU, SE)

    Other tools and datasets

    • Example of potentially useful benchmarks: WRI Global 30m Framework for Monitoring Disturbed Organic Soils and the EDGAR forest module (Simone Rossi, JRC)
    • Fire-related emissions in the European Forest Fire Information System: Latest advances, potential challenges and recent trends (Fernando Sedano, JRC)

    13:00-14:30

    Lunch break – EEA Canteen

    14:30-15:45

    Session 7: Miscellaneous updates

    • The nowhere accounted HWP contribution in the production approach? – a case study for Austria - (Erwin Moldaschl, UBA, AT)
    • National Inventory Document - Transparency Guidance (Jill Mitchell, Aether, EEA)
    • Aligning CAP mitigation potential and the GHG inventory (Simona Bosco, JRC; Katarzyna Kowalczewska, EEA)
    • The new EU Bioeconomy Strategy and links with monitoring and LULUCF (Anu Korosuo, JRC)
    • Updates on the IPCC methodological report on Carbon Dioxide Removal, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CDR-CCUS) (Giacomo Grassi, JRC)

    15:45-16:00

    Closing remarks

    Practical Information

    The 22nd LULUCF Workshop will take place at the EEA premises in Copenhagen and online. Participation is by invitation only.