Editing IKEA (section)

===Sourcing of wood===

The group is responsible for approximately 1% of world commercial-product wood consumption, making it the largest individual user of wood in the world.<ref name="tnr-romania" /><ref name="IKEA Group Sustainability Report FY13">[http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/sustainability_report/sustainability_report_2013.pdf IKEA Group Sustainability Report FY13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107050510/http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/sustainability_report/sustainability_report_2013.pdf |date=7 January 2018 }}, Page 23. Retrieved 13 February 2014</ref> IKEA claims to use 99.5% recycled or [[Forest Stewardship Council|FSC]]-certified wood.<ref name="ikea-sustainability-report-2021">{{cite web |title=IKEA Sustainability Report FY21 |url=https://gbl-sc9u2-prd-cdn.azureedge.net/-/media/aboutikea/newsroom/publications/documents/ikea-sustainability-report-fy21.pdf?rev=6d09c40ec452441091b10d9212718192&hash=1A1FDACCB00D35EE9D64428D85CA6C4E |access-date=6 August 2022 |website=ikea.com |archive-date=23 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523084830/https://gbl-sc9u2-prd-cdn.azureedge.net/-/media/aboutikea/newsroom/publications/documents/ikea-sustainability-report-fy21.pdf?rev=6d09c40ec452441091b10d9212718192&hash=1A1FDACCB00D35EE9D64428D85CA6C4E |url-status=live }}</ref> However, IKEA has been shown to be involved in unsustainable and most likely [[illegal logging]] of old-growth and protected forests in multiple Eastern European countries in recent years.<ref name="tnr-romania">{{cite magazine| title=Ikea's Race for the Last of Europe's Old-Growth Forest| url=https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest| magazine=The New Republic| date=16 February 2022| publication-date=6 February 2022| access-date=22 July 2022| last1=Sammon| first1=Alexander| last2=Renault| first2=Marion| last3=Renault| first3=Marion| last4=Cummins| first4=Eleanor| last5=Cummins| first5=Eleanor| last6=Lee| first6=Kevin| last7=Lee| first7=Kevin| last8=Shapiro| first8=Walter| last9=Shapiro| first9=Walter| last10=Beyerstein| first10=Lindsay| last11=Beyerstein| first11=Lindsay| last12=Haas| first12=Lidija| last13=Haas| first13=Lidija| archive-date=22 July 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722121507/https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Harvey |first=Fiona |author-link=Fiona Harvey |date=23 June 2020 |title=Timber from unsustainable logging allegedly being sold in EU as ethical |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/23/timber-unsustainable-logging-allegedly-sold-eu-ethical |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815112329/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/23/timber-unsustainable-logging-allegedly-sold-eu-ethical |archive-date=15 August 2022 |access-date=22 July 2022 |website=The Guardian |publication-date=16 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Ikea sold children's furniture 'made of illegally-logged Russian wood'| author=Jane Dalton| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ikea-children-furniture-illegal-wood-b1884276.html| website=The Independent| publication-date=23 June 2020| access-date=22 July 2022| archive-date=7 July 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707060435/http://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ikea-children-furniture-illegal-wood-b1884276.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

IKEA is the world's largest buyer and retailer of wood.<ref name="tnr-romania"/> In 2015, IKEA claimed to use 1% of the world's supply of timber.<ref>{{cite web |date=26 February 2015 |title=Making Solid Wood |url=http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/022615_pr_making-solid-wood |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419042236/http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/022615_pr_making-solid-wood |archive-date=19 April 2015 |website=ikea.com}}</ref>

According to IKEA's 2021 ''Sustainability Report'', 99.5% of all wood that the company uses is either recycled or meets the standards of the [[Forest Stewardship Council]]. IKEA states that "[a]ll wood used for IKEA products must meet our critical requirements that ensure it's not (e.g.) sourced from illegally harvested forests [...]".<ref name="ikea-sustainability-report-2021"/> However, despite these claims, IKEA has been involved in unsustainable and most likely illegal logging of wood in multiple Eastern European countries in recent years; see [[Criticism of IKEA#Wood sourcing practices|Criticism of IKEA]].

IKEA owns about 136,000 acres of forest in the US and about 450,000 acres in Europe.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Takahashi |first1=Paul |title=Ikea acquires 42,000 acres of forestland in East Texas |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/retail/article/IKEA-acquires-42-000-acres-of-forestland-in-East-14853600.php |newspaper=Mysa |date=22 November 2019 |access-date=26 November 2019 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801190708/https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/retail/article/IKEA-acquires-42-000-acres-of-forestland-in-East-14853600.php |url-status=live }}<!--455+125=580--></ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ikea bought 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from development |author=Alaa Elassar |date=31 January 2021 |website=CNN The Good Stuff |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/ikea-forest-georgia-protect-trnd-scn/index.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201185131/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/ikea-forest-georgia-protect-trnd-scn/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 14 January 2021, IKEA announced that Ingka Investments had acquired approximately 10,840 acres (4,386 hectares) near the [[Altamaha River]] Basin in the U.S. state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] from [[The Conservation Fund]]. The acquisition comes with the agreement "to protect the land from fragmentation, restore the longleaf pine forest, and safe-guard the habitat of the gopher tortoise".<ref>{{cite news |title=Ingka Investments acquires forestland in United States from The Conservation Fund |url=https://www.ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/newsroom/ingka-investments-acquires-forestland-in-united-states-from-the-conservation-fund-pub70656d40 |access-date=2 February 2021 |website=ikea.com |archive-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131194127/https://www.ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/newsroom/ingka-investments-acquires-forestland-in-united-states-from-the-conservation-fund-pub70656d40 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ikea bought 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from development |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/ikea-forest-georgia-protect-trnd-scn/index.html |date=31 January 2021 |last=Elassar |first=Alaa |publisher=CNN |access-date=2 February 2021 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201185131/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/ikea-forest-georgia-protect-trnd-scn/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

IKEA is reported to be the largest private landowner in Romania since 2015.<ref name="tnr-romania"/>