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EU 2020 Strategy, resource
efficiency and the potential of EU
forests
Hilkka Summa
DG Agriculture and Rural Development
European Commission
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EU 2020 strategy
Priorities:
Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Exiting the crisis
Targets:
Five EU wide headline targets
National targets
- Dialogue with the Commission
- National reform programmes
Tools:
Flagship initiatives
Using existing tools – the single market, EU budget, external policy tools
Monitoring progress
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EU 2020 Flagship Initiatives
Smart growth
Digital agenda for Europe
Innovation Union
Youth on the move
Sustainable growth
Resource efficient Europe
An industrial policy for te globalisation era
Inclusive growth
An agenda for new skills and jobs
European platform against poverty
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A resource-efficient Europe
- Flagship initiative under Europe 2020
Policy framework to deliver a shift towards a resource
efficient and low-carbon economy
Coordinated action in a wide range of policy areas
Objectives:
 Economic performance while reducing resource use
 Innovation, new sources of growth, competitiveness
 Security of supply of essential resources
 Fight against climate change, limit environmental
impacts of resource use
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Forests as a natural resource
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Forest resources in the EU
• Forest and other wooded land:
178 million ha (42%)
• Growing stock (FOWL):
- 24 million m3
- data for 2005: 23 million m3
• Felling:
- 60 % of the net annual increment
in forest available for wood supply
Based on FRA 2010 data
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Employment in the forest-based sector (2009)
• Employees in forestry and logging: 382 000
• Self-employed: 111 000
• Manufacturing of wood, products of wood and cork (employees
and self-employed): 1,2 million
 In total 1,7 million in forestry and manufacturing
of forest products
• Manufacturing of paper and paper products: 689 000
 In total 2,4 million people in the forest-based
sector
• 1.5 % of EU GDP (2.3 % for agriculture)
• about 10 % of the total added value from manufacturing.
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EU Biomass domestic supply for H&C and E - Primary energy (ktoe) by 2020
Biomass from forestry for
H&C and E
Biomass from agricultulture
and fisheries for H&C and E
14186
26109
Biomass from w aste for
H&C
66114
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Primary e ne rgy from biomass supply 2006-2015-2020
(ktoe ) in 25 NREAPs update 24th January 2011
Sew age sludge
2020
Industrial biow aste
Municipal biow aste
Agri by-products and f ishery
by-products
2015
Agri crops and f ishery
products
Indirect supply of w ood
2006
Direct supply of w ood
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Carbon stocks in EU forests
• Total carbon stock in EU forests (FOWL) was
estimated at 30 848 million tonnes
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58 % in soil,
26 % in aboveground biomass,
8 % in litter,
7 % in below-ground biomass and
2 % in deadwood.
• The most significant total amounts of carbon in
absolute values are in Finland (5 429 million t),
Sweden (4 667 mio t) and Spain (3 069 mio t).
• Carbon stored in EU’s forests is about seven
times the amount of the total annual CO2
emissions of the EU
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The Rural Development Policy post-2013
in the Communication from the
Commission “the CAP towards 2020”
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Why do we need a reform?
To respond to challenges ahead
Socio-economic
challenges
Environmental
challenges
Territorial
challenges
• Income gaps
• GHG emissions
• Price volatility, risk
management
• Soil depletion
• Vitality of rural
areas
• Lagging behind
rural regions
• Habitats and
biodiversity
• Water/air quality
• Diversity of EU
agriculture
Food security, food safety
Synergies and complementaries with: first pillar, structural funds
Contribution to Europe 2020 strategy
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Objectives of the future RD policy
1. Contributing to the competitiveness of agriculture and rural areas,
by promoting innovation, restructuring and efficiency in the use of
resources
2. Contributing to the sustainable management of natural
resources, by taking care of the environment and the countryside,
enhancing resilience to climate change and maintaining the
production capacity of the land
3. Contributing to a balanced territorial development of rural areas
throughout the EU by empowering people in local areas, building
capacity and improving local conditions and links between rural and
urban areas
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Orientations for rural development
Environment, climate change and innovation
as guiding themes
Improved coherence with other EU policies
More effective delivery mechanisms
Strengthen the strategic approach
The “toolkit” is already extensive
Address risk management
Review of distribution criteria
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The way ahead: link with Europe 2020
INCLUSIVE growth:
SMART growth:
• Supporting innovation
and skills, green
technologies and uptake
of research
Rural Development
• Providing incentives for
social innovation
SUSTAINABLE growth:
• Unlocking local potential,
diversifying rural
economies and
developing local markets
and jobs
• Opening-up alternative
opportunities to
accompany agricultural
retructuring
• Increasing resource efficiency and the provision
of public goods
• Reducing emissions, enanching carbon
sequestration and developing bioenergy
• Ensuring sustainable land management and
addressing biodiversity loss
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Thank you
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