{"id":118124,"date":"2022-11-07T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=118124"},"modified":"2022-11-02T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:24:51","slug":"finland-and-three-other-member-states-launch-a-forestry-lobbying-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/finland-and-three-other-member-states-launch-a-forestry-lobbying-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland and three other member states launch a forestry lobbying group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>The agreement, signed by the four ministers in Luxembourg, can be interpreted as preparation for the mounting pressure to protect and preserve forests with new legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/11\/image-2-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The agreement, signed by the four ministers in Luxembourg, can be interpreted as preparation for the mounting pressure to protect and preserve forests with new legislation. [EPA-EFE\/Attila Kovacs]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat took place today was that we came out of the wooden closet,\u201d commented Finnish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Antti Kurvinen (Centre) on the four-country cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interviewed by&nbsp;<em>Ilta-Sanomat<\/em>&nbsp;on Tuesday, Kurvinen said that it would be a mistake to look at forestry solely through the lens of climate and environment policy. Next to it, one has to keep in mind also competitiveness and employment issues as the climate crisis cannot be solved without a successful European forest industry, said Kurvinen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, Brussels suffers from an acute lack of expertise in forestry compared to existing good knowledge of climate issues and nature conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the aims of the \u201dFor Forest\u201d group will be to block initiatives based on \u201dfalse or unscientific facts\u201d and instead advance \u201dsensible and sustainable\u201d legislation, said minister Kurvinen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also underlined the importance of retaining forest policy in the realms of national decision-making, \u201din a way outlined in the EU Treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement, signed by the four ministers in Luxembourg, can be interpreted as preparation for the mounting pressure to protect and preserve forests with new legislation. \u201cWhat took place today was that we came out of the wooden closet,\u201d commented Finnish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Antti Kurvinen (Centre) on the four-country cooperation. Interviewed by&nbsp;Ilta-Sanomat&nbsp;on Tuesday, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Finland, together with Sweden, Austria, and Slovenia, have formed an informal strategic partnership, \u2018For Forest\u2019, to deepen cooperation in forestry management and policies within the EU","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[6268],"supplier":[5585],"class_list":["post-118124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-forestry","supplier-european-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118124"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=118124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}