Politics put raw material supply at risk – Swedish sawmills face supply uncertainty

The Environmental Objectives Committee this month presented its interim report with proposals for how Sweden can fulfill its commitments regarding nature conservation and the land use sector's absorption of greenhouse gases. The Swedish Forest Industry Federation (Skogsindustrierna) believe that several of the proposals pose major risks to the access to renewable raw materials, which particularly affect long-lived wood products and Swedish sawmills, while at the same time being counterproductive as climate measures. ''There are a number of good proposals in the report, but then there are others that risk counteracting the climate benefits that forests and the ...