The rural land using sectors are an essential tool in achieving the EU’s climate and environmental goals. Beyond the marine environment, they represent the only source of natural carbon sinks to help mitigate climate change whilst simultaneously rebuilding natural capital, protecting ecosystems, and ensuring that society can continue to access nature for their health and wellbeing.

As Europe transitions away from fossil and finite resources, there is a growing and implicit dependency on bioresources, which must be considered in the context of the future scale of that bioresource use and the impact it may have.