1. Wood and its derivatives in the concept of sustainable development

We no longer see wood as we did in 1980. It seems that a general awareness of environmental problems – latent but recently over-mediatized, commensurate with the fears and expectations – has changed our attitude towards wood, taking us from a smiling, somewhat condescending friendship for a traditional, familiar material, presupposed to be outside the field of scientific and technical progress (IT, chemistry, medicine, aeronautics, etc.), to an intimate rediscovery of a material that conveys ecological intelligence, and therefore hope, economy and balance, to the point of being a source of hope for the future.), to an intimate rediscovery of a material as a vector of ecological intelligence, and therefore of hope, economy and balance, to the point of seeing it as a weapon against climate change. The strong message of the Kyoto Protocol (written in 1997, launched in 2005 after Russia's signature)...