EU climate targets will shift logging elsewhere

Implementing the EU's sink targets for land use and forestry and the biodiversity strategy would cause a massive leakage of logging from the EU to other countries, says Maarit Kallio, professor of forest economics and policy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). “In practice, it would mean a huge transfer of income from EU countries to other countries, but almost no climate benefit compared to the costs,” Kallio says in an interview with Audiomedia , which follows the forest sector . The European Union's Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation (LULUCF) sets strict carbon ...