On April 24,

the EU and Norway have established a Green Alliance to strengthen their joint climate action, environmental protection efforts, and cooperation on the clean energy and industrial transition. The EU-Norway Green Alliance will focus on some priority areas. The most relevant ones from the point of view of the sawmill industry include:

• strengthening efforts to combat climate change including cooperation on climate adaptation, carbon pricing, carbon removals, and carbon capture, transport, utilisation and storage;
• increasing cooperation on environmental issues with a focus on halting and reversing biodiversity loss, forest degradation and deforestation, promoting circular economy and addressing the full life cycle of plastics, the development of global standards for the management of chemicals and waste and sustainable ocean management;

For more information, please have a look at the press release here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2391