Resource efficiency policies for land-use-related climate mitigation.

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The objective of the study is to recommend a policy framework suited to optimise the reduction of land-use-related greenhouse gas emissions and to simultaneously maximise carbon removals, by promoting 4 major mitigation options in a coherent and consistent way, while preventing negative spillover effects. These 4 options imply the use of the land for biomass production for fossil energy substitution, material/product substitution related to harvested wood products and other biomaterials/biochemicals, and to use the land in a way which increases the overall stocks of terrestrial carbon in soils, above and below ground living biomass, and in litter/dead organic matter. Effective implementation of the policy framework should be envisaged to take place over the period until 2030.