The governments of Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania supports the congress with 390,000 Euros. The Nordic Council of Ministers has earlier signed a Letter of Support for the Congress. Now the support can be measured in financial terms.
Fredrik Ingemarson, Chairmen of the Organizing Committee of IUFRO World Congress 2024, says: "We’ve had strong support from day one. This is more evident now when the governmental bodies formally have signed financial support for the Congress".
In the Letter of Support for the Congress the Nordic Council of Ministers states: "The IUFRO World Congress provides an important platform to open a global dialogue about lessons learned from Nordic forestry and also to learn from other parts of the world about local as well as global developments".
"The Nordic countries have an ambitious ambition to become the most sustainable region in the world. To achieve this goal, forests are crucial because they effectively absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With forests covering half of the terrestrial territory of the Nordic region, the sector is extremely important for the Nordic economy. The Nordic countries therefore play an important role in international cooperation on forests and we see great potential AT THE IUFRO World Congress to be held in Stockholm in 2024", says Karena Ellemane, Secretary General of the Northern Council of Ministers.
The XXVI IUFRO World Congress will take place at Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm from June 23 to 29, 2024. The Congress is held every five years, and in 2024 the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is organizing the Congress in collaboration with the Nordic and Baltic countries on behalf of IUFRO, one of the world’s oldest scientific organizations. The first congress was held 130 years ago in Vienna (Austria) in 1893.