Jonas Mårtensson, forestry director at SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner, argues that the stricter FSC certification criteria are limiting the ability of forestry to contribute to climate solutions. In his opinion piece, published in the Swedish financial newspaper ATL, he claims that FSC’s new requirements hinder key developments such as wind power expansion and the cultivation of more productive tree species. SCA owns 2.6 million hectares of forest in Sweden and around 75,000 hectares in the Baltic region. According to Mårtensson (in the left photo), as both national and EU legislation have ...