Forest planning, certifications and trade regulations to protect against deforestation

• Forest planning is becoming ever more important in Switzerland because of the growing demands on forests and the effects of climate change.<br />• Advances in digitalisation, remote sensing and mathematically-based decision-making systems are enhancing the basis for long-term planning of sustainable, economic and ecological forest management.<br />• The global threat to forests from deforestation, particularly in agricultural production areas, and from illegal logging is leading to stricter legal regulations on the trade in raw materials and products associated with deforestation in the EU, the US, Australia, Japan and also in Switzerland.