[en] Forests take up a central position in the issue of climate change. Indeed, they offset part of our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions every year, while products of the forestry and forest-based industry can be used as substitutes for materials and fossil fuels that produce significant amounts of GHG emissions. But as a result of climate change, forests and their services are themselves also vulnerable. In this article, authors describe the proposal published by The Shift Project association to revitalise the forestry and forest-based industry in the European Union (EU) with the aim of reducing its GHG emissions. Having recalled the role played by European forests in carbon sequestration and provided an overview of the timber industry in the EU, the authors suggest that substitution of high-emission construction materials (concrete, steel, aluminium, etc.) by wood products should be doubled by 2050. They then consider actions that should be undertaken so as to achieve that objective: increase in production of wood, redirecting flows and structuring of the industry. The implementation of this programme would enable the EU to reduce its emissions by at least 100 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2050 while also benefiting from other economic, social and environmental advantages. Published in Rev. For. Fr. LXIX - 3-2017 (authors)

[en] This set of 4 reports presents different steps of elaboration of a global vision of the possible transformations of the French economy and society (with all its sectors). The first document presents objectives for the different downstream sectors (daily and long distance mobility, freight, individual and collective housing, and so on), upstream sectors (heavy industry, recycling and wastes, automotive industry, energy, agriculture and food, forest and wood), the main transverse axes (governance, finance, urban planning), and issues of coherence for various aspects (energy, macro-economy and employment, dependence on fossil energies, resilience to climate and other threats, and so on). The other documents report evolutions of this prospective work during 2020