The Finnish forest industry has been consistently promoting sustainability for decades. We want to continue to be frontrunners in the future as well. We published our first voluntary sustainability commitments in 2013 and renewed and expanded them in 2018 to guide the industry’s work until 2025. This is a summary of our progress towards our ambitious goals.
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation brings changes for the forest industry and fiber-based packaging.
The progress report shows that the industry’s sustainability efforts are progressing in line with the goals.
Success in sustainability work requires long-term efforts at every stage of the entire value chain.
One of the key achievements of the negotiations was more equal balance between recycling and reuse.
EU member states' stance would tie the EU to fossil-based resources and an increasing water consumption.
The Industrial Emissions Directive is slowly coming together. There are still several important questions without answers.
Measures to strengthen the state of nature in connection with forest management have been carried out for about 30 years.
Some of the concerns raised by the forest industry were taken into consideration.