“We are very clear that our purpose is to manage the State’s forests on behalf of the people of Ireland, having mapped everything that Irish forests can deliver to the UN sustainable development goals. It links to nine goals, everything from sustainable construction to water and soil protection, health and wellbeing, energy.”This has been distilled down to four critical objectives – “forests for climate, forests for nature, forests for wood and forests for people”. Coillte forests are sustainably certified for the past 20 years. Coillte chief executive Imelda Hurley with managing director of Coillte Forest Mark Carlin at Avondale Forest Park in Co Wicklow. So last year we planted 18 million trees across the estate,” she says.

Source: The Irish Times June 21, 2024 15:49 UTC