Forests are an important part of the solution to the climate problem. The more trees that are planted and the more forest that grows on our planet, the greater their capacity to sequester carbon dioxide. This requires
active and responsible forestry.
The swedish forests are expanding at a record rate. Since 1945, they have increased almost 50 per cent. At the same time, every year it has been possible to extract more and more timber from the Swedish forests. The Swedish forest industry replants more forest than it fells, and for every tree felled, 2-4 new ones are planted. We are thus not running out of wood.
Since 1945, the Swedish standing forest has grown about 50 per cent. During the night of 8 January 2005, the hurricane Gudrun felled as many trees in Sweden in the space of only a few hours as are normally felled in a whole year.