Severe economic loss for European forest land expected by 2100
Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 17:30
in Earth & Climate
By 2100 the climate change is expected to reduce the economic value of forest land by 14 to 50 percent, which equates to a potential damage of several hundred billion Euros unless effective countermeasures are taken. This is the conclusion of the first pan-European study on the economic effects of climate change on forest land.