FINLAND — A study led by the University of Eastern Finland has confirmed that increasing logging would severely complicate the effort to combat climate change. The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and University of Finland reported that increasing logging would reduce carbon sinks unsustainably if forest industry companies used the raw material to manufacture the same products as today. …The simulation takes into account the fact that increasing the use of bioenergy and wood products can compensate for roughly a half of the decrease in carbon sequestration. “In order to compensate for the detriment, you would have to succeed in promoting forest growth considerably from the baseline of the calculations. …The findings can be interpreted as a validation of the climate policy approach of the European Union.