News

• Resources and ownership

  02.07.2026

  Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn: EU treaties should include specific provisions on forests

  Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland and former Vice-President of the European Commission, wishes to encourage debate on specific provisions on the role of forests. The treaties forming the basis of EU legislation contain no mention of forests.

• Resources and ownership

  23.06.2026

  Forest News launches new European forest statistics tool

• Biodiversity and Conservation

  25.06.2026

  Point of view | Teemu Seppä: Bird nesting and forest management – One legal case, many unpredictable effects on forestry 

• Climate Change

  17.06.2026

  How bark beetles signal a warming risk for nordic spruce forests

• Innovations

  11.06.2026

  Pine bark tackles pharmaceutical pollution in wastewater

• Climate Change

  04.06.2026

  Europe’s shift toward low‑carbon wood construction accelerates — but progress remains uneven

• 28.05.2026

  Finnish timber competitiveness strengthens as wood construction targets industrial growth

• Innovations

  21.05.2026

  The forest industry gets an AI assistant built on expert‑verified knowledge

• Silviculture

  21.05.2026

  Point of view | Matthias Held: From crisis to carbon – How Germany’s forest transformation could power a bio-based chemical revolution

• Innovations

  13.05.2026

  Shimmering wood that decomposes in the forest – commercialisation of a nanocellulose-based method is already underway 

• Biodiversity and Conservation

  12.05.2026

  FAO’s Zhimin Wu: Forest vitality can be secured through efficient wood use

• Climate Change

  30.04.2026

  Study: Forest logging restrictions do not benefit the global climate – they cost the EU a fortune

• Climate Change

  12.03.2026

  Swedish daily: Why is forest land in Sweden three times as good a carbon sink as that in Finland?

• Circular bioeconomy

  16.04.2026

  EU moves to standardise packaging labels – what does it mean in practice?

• Biodiversity and Conservation

  31.03.2026

  A private landowner sold nature values to a company in Finland – the deal sets an example for the European Commission’s ambitions

• Innovations

  17.03.2026

  His Majesty King Charles III and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb explore Finnish bioeconomy innovations in London