Radio Netherlands: Europe’s forests are an important factor in the CO2 cycle. Woodland accounts for no less than 35 percent of Europe’s surface area and absorbs 10 percent of total CO2 emissions. But the economic crisis could disturb the balance by threatening the wood industry, which is the motor behind sustainable forestry. The United Nations conference which led to the Kyoto Protocol described the forests as the ‘stopgap’. When the negotiations threatened to grind to a halt, there were, luckily, …