{"id":131327,"date":"2024-06-10T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ikea-in-the-spotlight-flatpack-furniture-linked-to-systematic-destruction-of-romanian-forests\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:56:32","slug":"ikea-in-the-spotlight-flatpack-furniture-linked-to-systematic-destruction-of-romanian-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ikea-in-the-spotlight-flatpack-furniture-linked-to-systematic-destruction-of-romanian-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA in the spotlight: Flatpack furniture linked to \u2018systematic destruction\u2019 of Romanian forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131327\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Greenpeace campaigners say the company\u2019s suppliers are benefitting from a corrupt environment in the country. IKEA has been accused of contributing to the rapid deterioration of Romania\u2019s biologically rich forests.Two recent investigations reveal the impact of the flatpack furniture giant on the country\u2019s Carpathian mountains, one of Europe\u2019s largest remaining areas of primary and old growth forests. According to a Greenpeace report, more than 50 per cent of Romania\u2019s ancient forests have disappeared in the past 20 years, due to corruption and poor law enforcement. The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard<\/p>\n<p>A new report from the NGO details the role that IKEA and the Ingka Group, its largest franchisee, have played in this plundering &#8211; some of which has taken place in supposedly protected areas. UN chief calls on governments to stop fossil fuel ads: Where are they already banned?<\/p>\n<p>Why are Romania\u2019s forests under threat? Around 3,000 square kilometres of Romania&#8217;s forests are protected by European laws as Natura 2000 sites.But Romania\u2019s multi-billion euro timber industry &#8211; with the so-called \u2018wood mafia\u2019 at its heart &#8211; is plagued by systemic corruption and poor law enforcement. Logging and irresponsible forestry practices threaten the remaining forest. In 2019, leaked data from a government report revealed that almost 40 million cubic metres of wood are cut from the country\u2019s forests each year, half of which is illegally harvested.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the European Commission began infringement proceedings against the Romanian government after NGOs complained it was failing to address the extensive logging of virgin forests within its protected Natura 2000 areas.The Commission also threatened to send the case to the European Court of Justice but, as yet, this has not happened.\u201cDespite some improvements and warnings from the European Commission, Romania continues to fail to uphold its legal duty to properly protect the EU\u2019s last large remaining primary and old growth forests,\u201d says Agata Syfraniuk, lead wildlife lawyer at environmental charity ClientEarth. \u201cIf the Commission does not escalate Romania\u2019s clear disregard of EU nature laws before the EU\u2019s highest court, the future of these important forests looks dire,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental organisations Agent Green and the Bruno Manser Fonds researched nine forest areas. Seven of these were owned by Ingka Group and two were public forest lands linked to IKEA\u2019s supply chain. Their April report, \u2018IKEA: Smart Outside, Rotten Inside\u2019, details at least 50 suspected violations of EU or Romanian legislation, and poor forest management practices. These include clear-cutting biodiverse woodlands, exceeding allowed maximum extracted wood volume, and failing to preserve trees high in biodiversity such as old oak, beech and dead wood.<\/p>\n<p>All forests investigated, including protected areas, had undergone intensive commercial logging, causing severe degradation of soil and ecosystems. The researchers looked at the types of forest management in every Ingka Investment property in Romania, and found only about one per cent of the total area was strictly protected. About eight per cent were partially protected, and more than 90 per cent were managed for industrial wood production, irrespective of whether they overlapped with Natura 2000 protected sites, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/06\/09\/ikea-in-the-spotlight-flatpack-furniture-linked-to-systematic-destruction-of-romanian-fore\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/ikea-in-the-spotlight-flatpack-furniture-linked-to-systematic-destruction-of-romanian-forests\/\">IKEA in the spotlight: Flatpack furniture linked to \u2018systematic destruction\u2019 of Romanian forests<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,5688,14841],"class_list":["post-131327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-ikea","tag-romanian-forests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}