The Swedish Forest Industries Federation supports the ambition from the European Commission to ensure the availability of quality data on forests in the EU. However the proposal presented today on a new monitoring system of the Union’s forests risks not delivering on these expectations. It is not obvious how the proposal adds relevant knowledge of […]
The European Commission proposed Wednesday a Forest Monitoring Law to help EU states and forest owners improve their response to growing pressures on forests and strengthen forest resilience.
Nearly 900,000 ha of land were lost to wildfires in the EU in 2022 - roughly the size of Corsica - according to a new report published Wednesday by the Eureopean Commission s Joint Research Centre.