Climate Panel: In Finland, too much forest is beaten in Finland
Surroundings|Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks should be balanced by 2035. According to the climate panel, not enough has been made for the goal.
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The Finnish Climate Panel warns that the country’s carbon neutrality target is at risk due to insufficient climate action in the land use sector.
According to the climate panel, logging should be reduced to 61-64 million cubic meters per year from the current 72.7 million cubic meters.
The land use sector has become an emission source from the net system, which also threatens Finland’s EU obligations.
To the climate law The recorded Finnish carbon neutrality target is in danger because the land use sector’s climate operations are not sufficient, says the Finnish Climate Panel in its recent memo.
The carbon neutrality target means that Finnish greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks should be balanced by 2035.
According to the climate panel, achieving the goal now seems more difficult than 2021 when the goal was set. However, the panel believes that it can still be achieved if action is taken quickly.
Fossil And, according to the climate panel, process -based emissions have decreased relatively rapidly: 46 % of the average level of 2000-2009 until 2023.
At the same time, however, the land use sector is published by the Natural Resources Center (Luke) greenhouse gas inventory Based on the net sink into an emission source. As a result, Finland’s net emissions have not decreased over the period.
In addition to the carbon neutrality target, according to the Climate Panel, Finland also has a common agreed obligation in the EU land use sector, LULUCF.
According to the greenhouse gas volume, the land use sector was an emission source of carbon dioxide equivalent of approximately 12 megaton tons in 2023.
In calculations There has been critical debate about the methods used. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has told Subscribe to the Natural Resources Center a report on the uncertainties in carbon sinking.
In particular, according to the ministry, there are very high uncertainties in the land use sector’s greenhouse gas inventory.
Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), member of the climate panel Sampo Soimakallio He admitted on Monday’s media that there were uncertainties in the methods.
According to him, updates made to greenhouse gas inventories have generally meant that the net sink has only been estimated to be lower.
According to the climate panel, a change of 27 megatons would be needed to have a net sink in the land use sector in 2035 – 15 megaton tonnes of carbon dioxide valent.
According to the climate panel, the change can only be achieved if the felling is reduced.
According to its invoices, logging should be reduced to 61-64 million cubic meters per year. The other year, 72.7 million cubic meters of wood was felled in Finland.
Climate panel The memo did not delve into the control of felling reduction. However, according to Soimakallio, there are ways: for example, changes in the Forest Act and financial guidance.
Chairman of the Finnish Climate Panel, SYKE Research Professor Jyri Seppälä He believes that a new assessment should now be made on what would be the best ways to reduce felling so that the forest industry would still have the ability to operate.
In addition, for example, reducing thinning of forests and forest management in peatlands would provide a climate panel estimated to strengthen the net sink.
However, without reducing the level of felling, other actions in the land use sector are not sufficient, according to the panel.
According to the climate panel, the emissions trading sector and the burden distribution sector also need to work to achieve the goal.
The emissions trading sector covers emissions from large industrial plants. The burden distribution sector, in turn, includes, among other things, transport and agriculture.
