Sweden goes to war over its forests
STOCKHOLM — More than two-thirds of Sweden is covered by trees, and that's turning the country into a battleground between loggers and climate activists. The spark is the EU's new Forest Strategy, published earlier this month. It aims to boost biodiversity, limit burning trees for energy, protect remaining old growth forests from logging and plant 3 billion trees as part of the bloc's effort to slash emissions on the path to its Green Deal goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050. Despite assurances from the European Commission that it isn't trying to dictate forest policy to member countri...
Source: politico.eu