Ajantasa: finnish forests and climate change

Academy professor Timo Vesala, and Marja Kokkonen from Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry were interviewed about the finnish forest use and the state of forest in climate change, as a continuum of #metsäjulkilausuma.

What are the researchers worried about in the planned increased forest use? What are the reasons and motivations of the Ministry to increase forest use? How will the carbon stock in forests change in the near and far future with the planned changes?

Podcast available in Yle Areena (in Finnish) (starts 21:50).

More information on the pub­lic let­ter on the planned use of finnish forests and its ef­fects on cli­mate.