Finland's laudable "climate neutrality 2035" is based on the planning that in that year, Finland's forests will take up the very same amount of remaining fossil CO2 emissions: 20Mt/a.
This of course lightens considerably the requirement for fossil reduction policies.

Now, inexplicably, Finland's natural sink degraded steadily since 2015...
And so much so that by 2018, Finland's forest became a CO2 source. Essentially undoing all efforts since 1990 to reduce fossil emissions. By 2023, Finland's total emissions relative to 1990 not only didn't fall, they rose by 7.8% !!

Don't prematurely yell "Climate Change!!!!!"
It's wrong in this case.

Finland's forest sink degraded because of neoliberal deregulation!
Since 2015, forest owners no longer need to be member of a state- and science-based forest union. Instead, they can leave management decisions 100% to logging companies.
And they do.
And logging companies base decisions on profits.
That's the reason.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20162862
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