{"id":1610,"date":"2026-09-10T02:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/?page_id=1610"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:25:11","slug":"sink-biomassa-forestale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/projects\/sink-biomassa-forestale\/","title":{"rendered":"RSE \u2013 forest management, national carbon sink and biomass for energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2025\u20132027 \u00b7 Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) \u00b7 Research Fund for the Italian Electrical System \u00b7 The Forest and woodland resource management project, developed by the University of Milan and Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE), investigates how much woody biomass can be supplied to the national energy system under alternative forest-management policies while remaining consistent with climate, ecological and sustainability objectives. \u00b7 Subsequent activities will develop and validate a national forest-harvesting model integrating forest type, management regime, carbon stocks and flows, and climate change. Scenarios will cover the 2030, 2050 and 2070 horizons and include business-as-usual management, fire-prevention silviculture, substitution through wood products and bioenergy, and abandonment or spontaneous forest expansion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:start -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large forestlab-project-main-image\">\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"512\"\nsrc=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-20-sink-biomassa-forestale-768x512.jpg\"\nalt=\"Wood chipping during forest management operations\"\nclass=\"wp-image-1774\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-20-sink-biomassa-forestale-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-20-sink-biomassa-forestale-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-20-sink-biomassa-forestale.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Ripping It Outdoors \u00b7 Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/rippingitoutdoors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ripping It Outdoors<\/a><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:end -->\n\n\n<p>The first activity reviews forest management in Italy and estimates biomass availability by distinguishing between biological potential, technical availability and economically and ecologically sustainable availability. The analysis considers accessibility, slope, forest roads, management and conservation constraints, harvesting costs, bioenergy sustainability criteria and competition between material and energy uses of wood. The project analyses how available biomass could be allocated among district heating, electricity generation, off-grid heat and other energy uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A specific component assesses whether different harvesting levels are compatible with maintaining the national forest carbon sink and with climate targets for the LULUCF sector. Scenarios will also be assessed against other ecosystem services, including biodiversity, protection from hydrogeological hazards, wildfire risk and carbon storage. Results will feed into RSE Life Cycle Assessment analyses of present and future bioenergy pathways in the Italian energy system. UniMi coordinator: Giorgio Vacchiano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research lines:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/en\/forest-carbon-climate-mitigation-bioeconomy\/\">Forest carbon, climate mitigation and bioeconomy<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/sustainable-forest-management-planning\/\">Sustainable forest management and planning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Reports and outputs:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/RSE_UNIMI_Gestione_patrimonio_boschivo_primo_rapporto_dicembre_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest and woodland resource management \u2013 First interim report: state-of-the-art analysis (December 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025\u20132027 \u00b7 Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) \u00b7 Research Fund for the Italian Electrical System \u00b7 The Forest and woodland resource management project, developed by the University of Milan and Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE), investigates how much woody biomass can be supplied to the national energy system under alternative forest-management policies while remaining consistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1774,"parent":570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1610","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions\/1777"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}