The new 2030 Forest Strategy is triggering diplomatic clashes in the EU over who should be responsible for forest policy, as EU auditors voice concern on biodiversity loss. Europe’s biggest timber nations lined up at an Austrian conference this week to reject a climate strategy proposed in Brussels to sustainably regulate how woodlands are managed.  Resistance against legally binding EU proposals appears to be mounting. Forestry ministers from Germany, France, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden, as well as industry representatives declared after meeting in Vienna that the European Commission should steer clear of any rules that restrict national ...