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Innovations based on the sustainable use of wood and other forest ecosystem services play an important role in strengthening the EU’s industrial base. During the accelerating green and digital transformation across Europe, we can rely heavily on our forests, which are managed by farmers across Europe with the basic principles of the circular economy in mind, the Minister of State said.
“Sustainable agriculture and forestry play an important role in combating climate change, in protecting biodiversity and nature, and through this in preserving the values of human civilization,” Peter Zambo explained at the professional meeting with the German delegation, according to the announcement. He added that in the European context, we can clearly speak of a sustainable and competitive economy based on biomass, for which knowledge-based and innovative agriculture and forestry are essential.
At the meeting with the leaders of the German Forest Council, it was said that the entire European agricultural and forestry economy and the industrial processing based on it could play a significant role in restoring broken global supply chains and in achieving the Forum’s goals. The focus of the sovereign European food system and European strategic autonomy should be on knowledge transfer and local added value creation.
In order to achieve everything, during the current EU Presidency, the Ministry of Agriculture is giving priority to issues related to the production and distribution of plant and forest propagation material, and is promoting the establishment of an appropriate unified framework for forest monitoring, which will provide information on the state of EU forests, their environmental and socio-economic value, the burdens on forests, and the ecosystem services they provide.
Announced: Hungarian and German forest leaders agreed to continue working towards common goals and to strengthen sectoral relations at several levels. As part of this, they call for an exchange of experiences between public and private forest managers, as well as civil society organizations, which has already started with contacts between the Hungarian National Forest Association and the German Forest Association. Cooperation at the sector leaders level will also be strengthened, with the next meeting scheduled to take place during Green Week in Berlin in January 2025, AM reported.
