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"It goes without saying that forest protection is a key environmental issue. Forests, when they are well maintained, provide the main carbon sink and play a vital role in combating climate change. If they are not, and are subjected to intensive deforestation, they would produce 25% of all CO
emissions, a greenhouse gas caused by human activity. In other words, the European Union, including Sweden and Finland, which together account for 33% of Europe’s forest, and also the Mediterranean countries, have every interest in stepping up their strategy to combat threats to the forest, such as atmospheric pollution and forest fires.
In this respect, I am delighted that, as part of the vote on the Green Paper entitled ‘Preparing forests for climate change’, paragraph 38 of the Arsenis report has been adopted, which ‘urgently calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal on forest fire prevention’ and plans, in particular, ‘a 30-year ban on building on land where there has been a forest fire’. This is a good way of countering the widespread practice of using forest fires to promote the interests of property developers."@en1
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