EU Carbon Sink Down 30%

Europe’s land carbon sink has shrunk by about 30% in a decade as logging, wildfires, and pests damage forests. Because many net‑zero plans depend on land‑sector removals, a weakening sink means deeper cuts are needed in energy, transport, and food emissions or better forest management to restore sequestration. — This challenges assumptions in European climate policy that count on steady or growing land‑based carbon removals to balance remaining emissions.