Climate and land use expert and active in environmental issues for more than 12 years both in Sweden and abroad.
Forest is for me calm, recovery, and harmony – this complex ecosystem and its teeming life is for me completely breathtaking, in the forest I am reminded of the importance of echo before ego.
The commitment to save our last natural forests’ huge carbon stores and its teeming with life, is tireless because I believe that future generations have the right to a habitable, resilient and healthy planet, and not least, that they should experience the same forest walks that always manage to give me recovery and perspective.
Unfortunately, this is not a matter of course for today – the threat to the last remnant of natural forest is increasing daily.
Very frightening because protected forests are our best and most important friend in the fight against climate change.
Sweden should do the right thing and start legislating on a forest policy and forestry that respects Sweden’s commitments to the Paris Agreement, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and ILO Convention 169, which states that indigenous peoples have the right to say no to encroachment on their lands.
Together, these three international conventions set a clear framework for how much and in what way we can manage our forests.
If we started to protect enough and instead of today’s situation started to manage the forest fairly and sustainably, the forest would become the positive contributing piece of the puzzle of our time’s two fateful issues; the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity – so urgently needed.
That is a fact I always find motivation to fight for.