Your grocery bag’s carbon footprint starts with the packaging: Packaging choices have a surprisingly large impact on the carbon footprint of food purchases. The transition towards fibre-based packaging materials is supported by the new EU bioeconomy strategy. forest.fi/article/your...
Top 7 most-read articles in 2025: Forest health, climate change, and surprising research findings caught readers’ attention
The EU’s new bioeconomy strategy gave forestry innovations exceptional visibility in Brussels. EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall presented the strategy to international media wearing a Finnish wood‑fiber dress, with a wide array of bioproducts showcased behind her. forest.fi/article/fore...
As the world gathers at COP30 to tackle the wildfire crisis, Europe can lead by example by building a unified communications network to protect our shared air, Kai Lintunen writes in his blog. Read more: forest.fi/blog/blog-by...
Finland donated groundbreaking examples of sustainable wood-based innovations to the FAO’s new permanent exhibition, which opened in Rome as part of the organization’s 80th anniversary celebrations.
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EU Bioeconomy Ambassador Kati Merruntaus: “Bioeconomy has enormous potential – young people’s voices must be heard”. Read more:
Blog by Martta Fredrikson: Voluntary action makes a difference – For 30 years, donations by forest owners have financed forest excursions for children
The debate on forest harvesting levels in Finland continues. Most EU countries will not meet their 2030 targets for LULUCF sinks, according to estimates published by researchers, writes Elina Warsta, Senior Manager in Forest Affairs at UPM, in her blog.
Mitigating climate change and replacing fossil raw materials have brought biogenic carbon dioxide into a new light. Experts believe that biogenic carbon dioxide recovered from pulp mill flue gases could be the key to a new industrial revolution. Read more:
Wildfires are increasingly making headlines. There is urgent need for action—and the development of innovative firefighting technologies.
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Satellite and aerial images can be used to map tree health over vast areas and to direct forest owners’ attention to forests at risk. Could technology help stop bark beetle damage?
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Low-emission energy sources are being looked for to power machines and vehicles in the forest industry supply chain, writes Niko Hannula, Quality Manager at Stora Enso, in his blog.
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Today, a thousand students begin their school year at the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Natural Sciences – one of the modern wooden schools, appreciated by their users for their excellent acoustics and fresh indoor air.
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It needed somebody from Spain, namely Marta Cortina-Escribano, to show that sawdust and chips from aspen and birch can be used to grow the Ganoderma lucidum, one of the world’s most important speciality mushrooms.
The choices we make now as regards tree species will affect the kind of forests we will have in the changed climate of the future, writes in our Guest Blog Tiina Laine, holding a Doctorate of Agriculture and Forestry and working as Forestry Manager at Metsä Group.
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World Environment Day 2025, celebrated today, calls for action to beat plastic pollution. Solutions can be found in bioeconomy innovations. Wood doesn't just replace fossil-based materials – it’s the source of next-generation supermaterials.
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This week’s EU Green Week is all about the circular economy. The New Wood exhibition at the European Commission highlights the innovations emerging from the wood-based circular bioeconomy. forest.fi/article/commissioner-jessika-roswall-wood-is-not-a-material-of-the-past-it-is-a-pillar-of-the-future/
'Wood is not a material of the past – it is a pillar of the future’, said Commissioner Jessika Roswall in her speech at the New Wood bioeconomy exhibition showcasing future products. forest.fi/article/commissioner-jessika-roswall-wood-is-not-a-material-of-the-past-it-is-a-pillar-of-the-future/
Eurovision Song Contest overtaken by sauna craze: In the world’s happiest country, people believe that happiness is increased by their sauna culture and the close relationship to forests.
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Competitive edge and strategic autonomy for all of Europe from forest bioeconomy – read the Opinion of Marjaana Suorsa, Manager of Innovation policy at the Finnish Forest Industries.
Professor Annamari Laurén: Restoration of peatlands will will contribute to warming of climate for at least a hundred years
SUP directive confusing to packaging industry – Professor: ’It attempts to solve a problem it cannot solve’
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