Objectives

European economies and businesses increasingly depend on eco-efficient resource utilisation, as well as sustainable production and consumption patterns. A renewable resource base – like biomass, air or water – offers a wide range of new opportunities both for competitive businesses and sustainable policies.

Hence, the utilisation of renewable natural resources is gaining large-scale interest in European countries and beyond. Their potential is being acknowledged as a solution in the pursuit of sustainable development. This emerging trend is of interest for various businesses based on natural resources, but also for the entire economy.

Through the RRSF forums, the Finnish forest sector wishes to contribute to competitiveness, sustainability and well-being in Europe. Particularly forests and wood illustrate a renewable natural resource with multiple potentials. These potentials are related to, for example, construction, energy, environment, and rural development.

These cross-sectoral forums bring together key actors from different sectors in Europe. They aim at strengthening the understanding of the potentials of renewable natural resources in Europe, by addressing the following questions:

• How can the sustainable use of renewables contribute to competitiveness, sustainability and well-being?
• What are the potentials related to renewables in different sectors (e.g. energy, environment, construction, rural development)?
• What challenges exist in promoting the sustainable use of renewables and how to overcome them?
• What is the role of forests and wood in the context of renewables?

The forums are future-looking and output-oriented. They use interactive approaches and modern group work methods to provide new insight to the potentials of renewables, and to compile messages to ongoing policy and strategy processes.

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