The company will have to withstand immense pressure, both in connection with the so-called Nature Census project, in which protected habitats were identified in commercial forests, and also in relation to concepts newly introduced by Eurocrats, such as the green taxonomy. This is a fundamentally new classification system that subjects every economic activity in the European Union to climate and sustainability goals. Kristaps Klauss explains that the principles of the taxonomy will start to apply in the forestry sector as early as 2023. The regulation adopted by the European Union sets out six environmental objectives, one of which must be chosen as the priority. And if, for example, Latvijas valsts meži were to choose the promotion of biodiversity as its primary goal, which many environmental organisations would welcome, Latvia's forests would become one large nature reserve. A giant Slītere. You could pick mushrooms until you were bent double! However, that would negatively affect every resident of Latvia, because 90% of the income of Latvijas valsts meži is generated through the sale of timber.
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