millennia ago, population growth required the sacrifice of the forest to make way for crops, today forests are cut primarily for … profit, wood being one of the most precious commodities. It is true that in some parts of the world the forest is also … deforestation on many functions performed by the forest are evaluated, such as: carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen release …

of roundwood production to non-EU countries is evaluated using indicators related to governance, sustainable forest … management, biodiversity, forest condition, deforestation pressure and socio-economic aspects. In order to estimate the reduction … for Germany: (i) 10 % share of forest area set-aside, (ii) non-utilization of “old-growth forests” and (iii) 30 % share of …