Sustainability / Paper and trees

Sustainable forest management refers to the method of managing our forests in such a way that they maintain their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capabilities and vitality to satisfy the economic, social and ecological needs of both present and future generations on a local, national and global scale.

Paper grows on trees - that is why it is natural and renewable. But paper also makes trees grow, so more paper means more trees, more rural employment and less CO₂ in the atmosphere.

In Spain, wood for papermaking is planted and grown on 359,000 hectares of eucalypt and pine plantations that help to increase our forest land-cover and are large CO₂ sinks (they store 21 million tons of CO₂ equivalent.

These plantations account for 4,120 direct jobs involved in planting and forest management, as well as 12,360 indirect jobs (machinery, transport, workshops...), so they are a significant way of stimulating rural employment.

The sector is committed to forest certification: already 33% of the mills in the sector (100% of pulp mills) hold chain of Custody Certification, as do 100% of pulp suppliers to integrated mills and 65% of timber suppliers, but only 7.5% of Spain's forests (compared to 30% average in Europe) are certified. Encouraging the supply of certified domestic timber is the logical way of increasing the supply of certified products on the market.

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Paper grows on trees... and makes tress grow
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