This study analyses potential barriers to the implementation of the New EU Forest Strategy 2030 (EUFS) in Finland. When the EUFS was published in 2021, emphasising environmental outcomes and forests as carbon sinks, the timber-oriented countries were cautious of the strategy. While the EUFS is not a legally binding document, it comes with legally binding forest-related regulation. To shed light on a Member State’s response to...

Halting forest loss and achieving sustainable development in an equitable manner require state, non-state actors, and entire societies in the Global North and South to tackle deeply established patterns of inequality and power relations embedded in forest frontiers. Forest and climate governance in the Global South can provide an avenue for the transformational change needed—yet, does it? We analyse the politics and power in f...