Global Biosphere Management Model
policy support
policy role
The GLOBIOM approach is strongly grounded in the idea that the production of food, forest fibre, and bioenergy, must be analysed and planned in an integrated way across agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy sectors. GLOBIOM can be used to explore the various trade-offs and synergies around land use and ecosystem services, and helps scientists and policy makers understand and minimize land use and resource competition through more holistic thinking.
GLOBIOM can advise on a number of policy questions, for example:
- Capability of the agricultural system to supply future food demand and other societal services;
- Future agricultural land requirements and other pressures of the agricultural system on the environment (water needs, nitrogen);
- Trends in future deforestation and the impact of measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation;
- Future greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector and from land use change;
- The potential contribution of bioenergy to climate change mitigation;
- Assess the current and future demand and supply of water for irrigation;
- The relative costs and benefits of importing or exporting food and raw materials;
- The profitability, incentives, and impacts of changing agricultural management practices; and
- Adaptation of agriculture to future climate change.
The model was initially developed mostly for integrated assessment of climate change mitigation policies in land based sectors, including biofuels, and is increasingly being implemented also for agricultural and timber markets foresight, and economic impacts analysis of climate change and adaptation.
policy cycle
This model contributes to the following phases of the policy cycle
policy areas
This model can contribute to the following policy areas
impact assessments
Starting from July 2017, this model supported the ex-ante impact assessments of the European Commission listed below.
- 06 February 2024
- 30 November 2022
- 14 July 2021
- 17 September 2020