Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 18.2.2021 8.54 | Published in English on 23.2.2021 at 17.25 Press release By the end of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will draw up a comprehensive climate plan concerning agriculture, forestry and the land use sector that will be part of the planning system of the new Climate Change Act. The proposal for the plan will be prepared by an inter-administrative working group composed of public officials, appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on 16 February 2021.The Government is to approve the report on the climate plan in early 2022. The measures of the climate plan for the land use sector contribute to the achievement of a carbon-neutral Finland by 2035. The plan will comprise the measures needed to achieve the climate target of the land use sector, an implementation plan for these, and a plan on how the measures and their impacts will be monitored. By 2035 the annual net impact of the measures targeted to carbon dioxide emissions from agricultural soil, forests and long-living wood products, land use changes and wetlands should be at least 3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.