The new forest strategy proposes that the EU countries should take care of and expand their carbon sinks, ie leave the forest and bind carbon dioxide.

Emma Berglund, forest director at the trade association Skogsindustrierna, thinks, however, that the Commission has too narrow a view of the role of forests in the green transition.

She would have liked the EU to take more account of the great differences in forest resources and forest management.

-The forest contributes to mitigating climate change when it grows and binds carbon, but the forest's products also contribute when they replace the fossil fuel, she says in Aktuellt.

Environmental organizations want to increase the carbon sink

Carl Schlyter, campaign manager at Greenpeace, is positive about the proposal to reduce the rate of felling of trees.

- The carbon stock in the forest that the EU is now proposing is eight times more to replace the fossil than the productions we have today.

If you were to invest more in it, forest storage would still be eight times more than the value you would have with forest products.

Together with a number of other environmental organizations, Greenpeace has proposed that the total carbon sink in EU forests should instead be increased even further, to 600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year instead of the Commission's proposal of 310 million tonnes.

The industry association wants to see less

Emma Berglund, on the other hand, believes that the best thing for the climate is to use the forest.

- Then you can cut down the forest and plant new trees, while you can use the new raw material to replace the foissila.