Policy area: Climate policy
When members of the European parliament gathered for the plenary session in September, the agenda was packed with negotiations about climate and energy proposals. The forest played a major role in many of these. One of the votes concerned the Commission’s legislative proposal for a regulation on deforestation, which the parliament adopted. The network of politicians; Europaforum Northern Sweden, which North Sweden European Office is part of, supports the EU:s ambition to reduce the global deforestation but an increased administrative burden connected to trade with wood and wooden products is a cause for concern.
On the 14th of September the European Parliament voted to adopt revisions to the Renewable Energy Directive, which in broad strokes determines if biomass from the forest can be classified as sustainable or not. The adopted revisions entail a restriction on the share of primary raw wood material that can be classified as renewable energy. Politicians from northern Sweden have, with the support of North Sweden, drafted a letter addressed to the members of the European Parliament where they asked for legislation that would also work in the arctic regions, which to a large extent is heated and provided with electricity from this type of biomass.
On the of 28 September the political network Europaforum Northern Sweden, which North Sweden European Office is part of, signed a position paper put together by ERIAFF, a European network consisting of regional parties in agriculture, food and forest. The position pertains to the European Commission’s latest legislative proposal about land use, Nature restoration law.
European forum Northern Sweden (EFNS) takes a stand on the European Commission’s proposal to update EU legislation to make EU independent from Russian fossil fuels (REPowerEU). EFNS supports a high-level commitment under REPowerEU but highlights that the climate crisis, the energy crisis, and the war in Ukraine are increasingly placing focus on the green energy transition to a fossil free bioeconomy, where bioenergy offers a key solution to breaking both gas and oil dependency.
Europaforum Northern Sweden (EFNS) takes a stand on the European Commission's proposal for a revised regulation on land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) in a new position paper. EFNS highlights that incorrect conclusions about deforestation that the European Commission is leaning on must not shape the EU's climate and energy policy!
08 Apr 2022 EFNS views on renewable hydrogen in the Renewable Energy Directive
01 Dec 2021 Europaforum Northern Sweden’s position paper on EU’s updated Arctic policy
02 Nov 2021 Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) meeting about Arctic policy and the EU Green Deal
29 Oct 2021 Workshop during European Week for Regions and Cities: green and digital transition in the European Arctic
15 Oct 2021 EU's new Arctic policy has been presented!
17 Mar 2021 EU Industry Week 2021: Northern Sweden's minerals and batteries crucial to the EU's green deal
11 Mar 2021 The Nordic countries - a model in the transition to climate neutrality, says the European Commission
03 Mar 2021 The extension of the European core network corridors from a Nordic perspective
16 Dec 2020 Arctic Futures Symposium 2020
21 Oct 2020 The European Artic in EU post 2020 policies
21 Oct 2020 EWRC webinar Circular economy in the Arctic industries
17 Sep 2020 State of the union – Northern Sweden a guiding example
15 Sep 2020 Northern Sweden puts forward the importance of a regional dimension on EU's forest strategy
30 Jun 2020 NSPA:s views on EU Cohesion Policy
11 Mar 2020 The European Commission proposes 61 million euros to Upper Norrland for the restructuring of the steel industry
15 Jan 2020 Northern Sweden’s minerals important for EU’s climate adaptation
18 Dec 2019 North Sweden gathered in force with big regional stakeholder meeting in Brussels
27 Nov 2019 Swedish forestry in focus during two seminars on November 22
18 Jun 2019 European premier of the OECD’s international meeting on mining in Skellefteå
07 Mar 2016 Position on Cascading
02 Dec 2015 Boliden - one of the world's largest mining and smelting companies
26 Nov 2015 North Sweden premiere a series of articles on Raw Materials in Northern Sweden
23 Mar 2015 NSPA has formally initiated the work with the OECD study
23 Oct 2014 Sustainable mining in Northern Sweden
06 Jul 2014 The Impact of Culture - Creative businesses for sustainable cities
