Forestry

Winter pruning with the right equipment

Efficient and environmentally friendly: Divinol AquaChainFluid

Sustainability starts at the source: deforestation not an issue in Finland 360-degree service supports customers with environmentally friendly packaging

Making packaging sustainable, safe and yet attractive is becoming increasingly important. The expectations and wishes of many consumers are accelerating this development, as are stricter regulations.

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Why Illegal Deforestation Should be Treated as a Security Issue

Dr Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Dr Adam Day examine the links between deforestation and security, charting a way forward for policymakers, law enforcement and the multilateral system. This builds on a Plataforma CIPÓ project supported by UNU-CPR, the Database of Global Forest Governance Arrangements.

High-tech and sustainability at FN Neuhofer

The location in Zell am Moos is hardly recognisable! Today, a modern new building impresses - consisting of an office building and production halls.

Can forestry and agriculture combine to feed the world?

By 2050, over nine billion people are expected to populate the planet. Feeding this number is believed to be possible, but only if dramatic changes are made are soon. Find out how can sustainable forestry and sustainable agriculture can work together to help.

More Than 2.5 Billion Trees to be Conserved, Restored, and Grown by 2030

With more than half of our annual global GDP, or $44 trillion, potentially threatened by nature loss, businesses have clear incentives to protect and support the planet
Healthy and resilient forests can reduce the effects of climate change, but do not replace cutting greenhouse gas emissions
With the launch of the 1t.org global pledge process at the Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit, over 20 companies have pledged to conserve, restore and grow more than 2.5 billion trees in over 50 countries
1t.org is encouraging global corporations to get in touch about pledging and to learn more about effective restoration commitments
Learn more about our Sustainable Development Impact Summit

Biodiversity: Land Use – Threat to and Opportunity for Bumblebees

KIT Researchers Investigate the Effect of Land Use Changes on European Bumblebee Species under a Changing Climate

Dow announces strategic collaboration with Natura for Project Ybá in Brazil – a model of sustainable commercial-ecological-social development in the Amazon Rainforest

A Dow initiative, “Project Ybá: Conservation that Transforms” aims to develop a local cooperative, which will sell the bioactive products from Dow’s preserved areas of the Amazon Rainforest, and increase family incomes in the local community, while conserving the rainforest.

AFRY as an engineering partner in Sekab’s production scale-up project development in Sweden

Sekab has awarded AFRY engineering and project partner assignment for the planned full-scale production facility in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The production facility will produce green chemicals from the forestry industry residues. This is a continuation for earlier concept and feasibility study phases.

Stora Enso joins WWF’s Forests Forward impact platform

Stora Enso has joined the new WWF platform, Forests Forward. The platform engages businesses and investors to deliver on forest related sustainability ambitions, such as biodiversity protection and forest restoration.

Stora Enso plants more than 48 million tree seedlings in Nordic forests in 2021

It is the busiest time of the year, when our Nordic forests are being regenerated by planting or seeding. This year, Stora Enso will plant a total of more than 48 million tree seedlings in Finland, Sweden, Russia and Estonia. In northern forests, the planting season is typically about 150 days long, which means that, during this year’s planting season, about 320 000 seedlings are planted every day.