MP on the Forest Investigation: « Risals trust in authorities »
The government’s forest policy investigation, which aims to develop competitive forestry with equal importance in production and environmental considerations, has already aroused as a draft strong reactions from researchers and environmental organizations.
Now criticism also comes from a political point of view.
The environmental party believes that the proposals will not solve the real problems that Swedish forest faces.
« It is a thought and wishful thinking from the forest industry that is now being followed up by various radical proposals that do not have a scientific basis, » says Rebecka Le Moine, the environmental party’s spokesman for biodiversity and member of the investigation’s parliamentary reference group.
According to Rebecka Le Moine There is no impact assessments for many of the proposals. As an example she mentions the use of a new model for the forest’s climate benefit developed by the forest industry, the proposals for cloning of fast -growing trees, increased fertilization and relief in restrictions on foreign tree species.
She also believes that it is wrong to introduce financial considerations in the environmental target system.
– It risks further watering one of the few tools we have to be able to follow up on how forestry works for our ecosystems.
The environmental party also looks with concern at the proposal to move « politically sensitive » reporting of forest data from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to the government. Rebecka Le Moine fears that this risks both confidence in the democratic system of independent authorities and the confidence of the Swedish forest industry’s customers, who have relied on Sweden’s environmental legislation and factual follow -up.
According to the directive, the investigation will develop a stable and predictable regulatory framework that promotes long -term sustainable and competitive forestry. What is the environmental party for politics that can ensure it?
– We need to invest more in refining the forest. Now 80 percent of the forest will be pulp, biofuel and other short -lived products. Instead, we need to work up an increased economic value for our forest through sustainable forestry where the trees are allowed to grow longer and give rise to more long -lived products.
DN has sought investigator Göran Örlander, who declines to comment on the criticism.
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