Forests – a basis for life

Forests are an integral part of global, sustainable development. To celebrate people's actions to sustainably manage the world's forests and to raise awareness of sustainable management and development in forests, the United Nations has declared an "International Year of Forests" for 2011. Only last year, a scientific study showed that the use of cartons and the manufacture of cartonboard in Europe encourages sustainable forest management and carbon sequestration in the forest, and that this can be directly related to carbon footprinting of cartons.

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