Flatpack forests - IKEA’s practices in the Carpathian Mountains

IKEA is one of the world’s largest consumers of wood. Almost 15 million cubic meters of the material are used every year in cheap IKEA products — with millions of trees felled for the mass production machine. IKEA Loves Wood ('IKEA elsker træ') is a Danish investigative documentary from 2024 that...

58 min - Planet & Climate - DW Documentary

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