{"id":97847,"date":"2021-09-29T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=97847"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:05:08","slug":"eu-should-stay-away-from-finnish-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/eu-should-stay-away-from-finnish-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"EU should stay away from Finnish forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>Forestry should be based on local conditions and knowhow in each member state, the Finnish government\u2019s ministerial committee on EU affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Sanna Marin, said on Friday, highlighting that forest policy belongs to the competences of member states.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the Commission\u2019s proposal has been praised for its position on biodiversity loss, carbon sinks and climate change, the government wants to secure the industry\u2019s ability to invest in the future. According to media sources, Finland also has reservations about the new certification system, closer-to-nature, currently being prepared by the Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-July, the European Commission published its Forest Strategy, where it called for better coordination and cooperation on forest-related initiatives between EU countries, which Finland already rejected back then, saying it was too detailed with regard to forest management and wood markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Finland is not the only country to be critical of the strategy. Several EU countries have raised concerns about the forest strategy and its implications for domestic competences, EUObserver reported. Germany and Austria are said to be ready to reject the strategy for good, while EU agriculture ministers will discuss the strategy in mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland is the EU\u2019s most heavily forested country, with 73% of its land area covered by forests, followed by Sweden, where 67% is covered with forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland has some 660,000 private forest owners and forest industry products represent 20% of exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/about-euractiv\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/about-euractiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">About Euractiv<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forestry should be based on local conditions and knowhow in each member state, the Finnish government\u2019s ministerial committee on EU affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Sanna Marin, said on Friday, highlighting that forest policy belongs to the competences of member states. Even if the Commission\u2019s proposal has been praised for its position on biodiversity loss, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Finland already rejected the Commission's Forest Strategy, saying it was too detailed with regard to forest management and wood markets","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[14356,6268,18676,19090,14441],"supplier":[2317,14674],"class_list":["post-97847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodiversity","tag-forestry","tag-forests","tag-foreststrategy","tag-policy","supplier-european-commission","supplier-finnish-government-valtioneuvosto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97847","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97847"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=97847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}