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• Register an initiative with seven major proposals in line with the European Green Pact and new lines of sustainable financing

The Popular Parliamentary Group has proposed to the Government, through a Proposal not of Law in the Congress, to advance in an Intelligent Forest Management, within the framework of the European Green Pact and the new lines of sustainable financing, that improves the quality of the masses of forests in our country and be a lever to reactivate the economy and emerge from the post-COVID-19 economic crisis.

With this initiative, signed by the spokeswoman Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, the group's general secretary, Guillermo Mariscal, the spokesperson for the Environment, César Sánchez, the spokesperson for Climate Change, Diego Gago, and the deputy Paloma Gásquez, the Popular Group proposes seven great proposals to the government:

1. Implement a Spanish Sustainable Forest Management Strategy and recover the Forest Action Plan with the aim of contributing to job creation,
Simplifying administrative procedures to facilitate forestry, recognizing the strategic importance of forests for territorial cohesion, sustainable rural development and as a brake on depopulation, which is integrated into the national green agenda to reactivate the economy.

2. Incorporate in the National Strategic Plan of the CAP incentives for forest managers to preserve, plant and manage forests in a sustainable way.

3. Identification of forest investment and management as a central instrument in the Strategy to combat depopulation, to reverse depopulation and enhance green engineering, the use of forests and their management as a tool for disaster prevention.

4. Encourage forest forest management and sustainable forest management, with favorable taxation that promotes forest investment, as well as compensating
positive externalities, through the creation of a National Forest Fund.

5. Encourage public-private collaboration, in order to stimulate and promote recovery, through the creation of new forest jobs.

6. Measures in support of value chains, such as innovative green purchasing by Public Administrations of wood and its products from logging
legal and sustainably managed forests, that improve the quality of our forests, do not lead to deforestation and create a favorable environment for
development of the industrialization of the forestry sector, as endogenous resources, and identify the forestry sector as a pillar of the development of the Bioeconomy.

7. Periodically inform the forestry sector by establishing and energizing the coordinating bodies.




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