Forest Solutions Group

🌲 Exciting Announcement! 🌲 We are delighted to welcome Suzano to the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Forest Solutions Group! 🎉 👏 Their alignment with our vision and mission to pioneer sustainable development for nature, climate, and people is truly inspiring. Suzano are committed to being a “regenerative” company that reduces risks, reverses biodiversity loss and increases the offering of services that are essential to life, such as food, raw materials and water 🥙🏠💧 💪Their actions across diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as their education, nature restoration and conservation programs demonstrates a strong commitment to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal’s. Suzano have made fast progress in increasing their consumption of renewable energy, reducing water withdrawal and increasing carbon removals. 🔊Their role as a sustainable business leader is loud and clear. 🔍For example, Suzano have been responsible for the 27 million tons of carbon equivalent removed from the atmosphere since 2020. 🌎As a leader in the forest industry, Suzano will strengthen our collective efforts, driving innovation and sustainable practices. Together, we will continue to lead the way in creating a better future for our planet and communities. 🌞 Let's give a warm welcome to Suzano! We look forward to the positive impact we will achieve together! #ForestSolutions #Sustainability #Leadership #Innovation #ClimateAction #Welcome #Naturepositive #Equity #forestry Bernard de Galembert Edie Marriner Jessica Fonseca da Silva Sara El Kadri Valentin Guigon, Ph.D Sarita Severien Marina Negrisoli  

🌲 📰Last week Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) released Additional sector guidance for forestry, pulp and paper. 🌱This is an essential step towards fulfilling the nature-positive agenda that strives to reverse biodiversity loss and ensure the sustainability of ecosystems, which are the foundation of human well-being, economic prosperity, and climate resilience. 🌎 As stewards of the world’s working forests, the forest sector has a vital contribution to make towards nature positivity, through preserving ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and providing essential raw materials. This is critical to guarantee its own durability. 📊 It is crucial to recognize the significant differences across sectors when implementing TNFD recommendations. That is why these sector specific guidance's are so important, as they will help companies from eight different sectors to apply the LEAP approach and apply the core disclosure metrics in the most effective way. 🤝 FSG has been working in close collaboration with TNFD and partners to develop TNFD’s Forestry and Paper Additional Guidance, which supports the implementation of TNFD recommendations by the forest sector. It provides tailored guidance, specific examples and metrics to assess and disclose on sustainable forest management and other nature-positive actions. 🗺 Contributing to this work was part of the implementation phase of the FSG’s Forest Sector Nature Positive Roadmap with the overall aim to support businesses in the sector in scaling up actions to halt and reverse nature loss, setting nature targets, and disclosing progress. 🔍This year we are continuing this work, building a user-friendly tool to support companies to identify and prioritize metrics that will help them show progress towards nature positivity. 👀 Stay tuned! #naturepositive #disclosure #forestry Bernard de Galembert Jessica Fonseca da Silva Edie Marriner https://lnkd.in/epHDAYZE.

Yesterday at the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm, Bernard de Galembert joined others to speak on the topic of scaling up exchange between forest science and business 🔬🌲 It was a privilege to join a panel of incredible speakers and discuss the science-business nexus 🗣 ➡ Bernard’s main messages were: ▪ In an increasingly complex and volatile environment, businesses need science to be able to implement their sustainability ambitions, and measure progress towards the targets they have set to themselves. ▪ Science provides the foundation for transparency, accountability, and genuine progress in businesses' sustainability efforts. ▪ Therefore, the connection between companies and the scientific community is not simply about exchanging funding and brainpower, it’s about building bridges to advance together the nature, climate and equity agenda. 👏 Thank you to the IUFRO team for setting this up: Alexander Buck, Maja Radosavljevic, Carola Egger and to the other panellists: Viveka Beckeman from the Swedish Forest Industries Rob Kozak from The University of British Columbia Dr. Dirk Längin from Mondi Group Tetra Yanuariadi from ITTO | International Tropical Timber Organization #IUFRO2024 #teamingup4forests Edie Marriner, Jessica Fonseca da Silva, Bernard de Galembert

💭 Yesterday at the The Navigator Company's “On the right side of the future” event, Bernard de Galembert had the pleasure of attending and speaking on behalf of WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Forest Solutions Group. 🌎 During his speech entitled “Sustainability is not an option, it is a business imperative”, Bernard underlined the leading role of FSG members in pushing a more ambitious sustainability agenda than “business as usual”. 🌲 As stewards of the world’s working forests, FSG members are aware of the increasing vulnerability of the forest ecosystems. 💪 Bold action is required to make them resilient to climate change and its unpredictable patterns, whilst continuing to provide climate mitigation benefits and maintain and restore biodiversity while ensuring that these net-zero and nature positive objectives are fulfilled in an equitable and inclusive manner. 🌱 Bernard also planted a tree on behalf of the FSG that symbolizes the promise of sustainably managed working forests providing renewable raw materials for the circular bio-economy. If you would like to learn more about the work of the FSG please get in touch, or visit our website ➡ https://lnkd.in/e5t-Jntf #workingforests #restoration #circularity #mitigation Paula Guimaraes Jessica Fonseca da Silva Edie Marriner

📢 If you are attending IUFRO 2024 next week, make sure to join us on 24th June at 14.30 where Bernard de Galembert, Director of WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Forest Solutions Group, will be speaking on scaling up exchange between forest science and business 🌲🌎 ⬇️ #IUFRO2024 #teamingup4forests Edie Marriner Jessica Fonseca da Silva Veronica de la Cerda

🌎🦋Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! One day to celebrate, 365 days to act! 📅 🏞 This year’s theme is land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. 👩🌾As highlighted by #SDG15 ‘Life on Land’, healthy land is vital to support ecosystems, agriculture and communities. Yet, according to the UN Environment Programme, 2 billion hectares of land is degraded, affecting more than 3 billion people. 🌳As stewards of the more than 1 bn hectares of the world’s forests globally, the forest sector plays a critical role in maintaining and enhancing land and ecosystems. In 2023, members of WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Forest Solutions Group reported: ➡24% of their land was set aside primarily for nature conservation or restoration, representing an area of 5 million hectares, equivalent to 7  million soccer fields ⚽ 🌱 FSG’s Nature Positive Roadmap highlights a couple of examples of restoration practices from members: ◾ HVP Plantation, a timberland management entity of Manulife Investment Management, worked in collaboration with local partners to help regenerate areas of warm temperate rainforest in Australia, adjacent to its productive forests. In addition to natural regeneration, the effort included removal of alien species and replanting of 11,000 native rainforest canopy trees. ◾ International Paper partnered with WWF to restore degraded forests in the Mogi Guaçu watershed in Brazil, helping regulate soil erosion, filtering out pollutants, maintaining watershed stability, and creating corridors for wildlife. You can learn more about the critical actions taken to accelerate the transformation of the forest sector in the FSG’s Nature Positive Roadmap: ➡ https://lnkd.in/eGP8-x3u Check out our website to learn more about FSG’s broader work across climate, nature and equity that strives to lead the sector and advance on major sustainability challenges. ➡ https://lnkd.in/es2BUGn5 #EnvironmentDay #landrestoration #NaturePositive #sustainableworkingforests #GenerationRestoration Bernard de Galembert Jessica Fonseca da Silva Edie Marriner

🌳 WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s FSG Director, Bernard de Galembert had the pleasure of representing the FSG at PEFC International's annual Forest Forum in Paris earlier this month! 🤝 It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with others in the forest sector and discuss how we can play a critical role in addressing climate change. 💬Following this insightful day where we heard from a range of engaging speakers, here are some of our key takeaways: ◾ There has been an impressive expansion of forest certification across working forests globally which is a positive sign that the sector is embracing sustainable forest management. ◾ The forest sector is walking the talk on their decarbonization commitments. Company representatives, like Sarah Price from Sappi exemplified this. ◾ The urgent need for the forest sector to adapt to climate change is still underestimated. ◾ There are exciting plans happening at the national level provided they are rightly implemented, for example the French governments focus on forest resilience, adaptation and reforestation, with their announcement to plant 1 billion trees in France over 10 years. ◾ The combination of emission reductions, carbon removals and product substitution by the forest sector is likely to deliver significant climate change mitigation benefits. ➡ If you attended the keynote speech and want to learn more about FSG's Decarbonization catalogue that provides 10 high-impact actions to reduce emissions and increase carbon removals, you can find the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e4SgqcPc PEFC FRANCE Jessica Fonseca da Silva Edie Marriner #decarbonization #forestsector #adaptation #certification #netzero #naturepositive 

🦋🐒🌲 Happy International Day of #BiologicalDiversity! 💭Today, we reflect on the critical role of the forest sector in achieving the goal set by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to protect biodiversity by 2030. Forests are an essential #PartOfThePlan as they provide us with a wealth of services essential for our well-being, from clean air and water to flood protection and climate regulation. 🌏Managing forests sustainably is crucial for safeguarding biodiversity and is instrumental to ensuring the continued supply of resources and other benefits for climate and people. ◾ Forests are home to over 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity [Source: UN FAO]. ◾ An estimated 350 million people worldwide live in forests  and 1.6 billion depend on them for their livelihoods [Source: The World Bank] ◾ A 10% loss in forest biodiversity leads to a 3% loss in productivity [Source: Liang et al.] 🤝 FSG members have worked collectively to improve their practices and protect and restore forests. In 2023 FSG members reported their shared nature and biodiversity key performance indicators: ➡ 24% of land set aside primarily for nature conservation or restoration purposes, representing an area of 5 million hectares ➡ 271,000 hectares of land was dedicated to conservation and restoration beyond the boundaries of their own landholdings to promote impact at scale ➡ 50,000 smallholders were reached directly through programs designed to support the adoption of sustainable forestry practices or manufacturing, and/or building capacity to obtain and retain certification 🎯 We count on all companies across all sectors to help implement the GBF's goals. The forest sector has a key role to play in achieving these goals. We need to manage forests sustainably, ensuring the continued provision of vital ecological services while safeguarding the incredible biodiversity they harbor. 🌳 Members of @WBCSD’s Forest Solutions Group are committed to further protecting and enhancing biodiversity and ensuring the continued provision of products used on our daily lives, like timber and paper. ➡ You can learn more about FSG's Key Performance Indicators here: https://lnkd.in/eGj7u2hr. 🔍 This year, we are developing a forest and nature metrics tool that will support the sector in identifying the most relevant and practical metrics to measure and demonstrate the impacts from sustainable forest management. 🔦 Watch this space! Bernard de Galembert Edie Marriner Jessica Fonseca da Silva   #BiodiversityDay #forestsector #sustainableforestry #forestproducts

🌲 PEFC International’s annual Forest Forum is happening this week in Paris! 🌲 ⏰ Join us in person at 8.45am on Thursday 16 May where Bernard de Galembert, Director of WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Forest Solutions Group, will give the keynote speech addressing the critical role of the forest sector in contributing to climate change mitigation, adaptation and decarbonization. He will focus on concrete actions to enhance the positive contribution of the forest sector to the climate change mitigation endeavour. 🤝🌎FSG members will also be participating. Sarah Price from Sappi will speak on mitigation and decarbonization for climate change, looking at activities undertaken by the forest sector to decarbonize their operations as well as the causes of deforestation and forest degradation and what preventative measures there are to stop this. 📉 FSG has been working on decarbonization of the forest sector as part of the Forest Sector Net-Zero Roadmap: ➡ FSG’s catalogue of 10 high-impact decarbonisation actions offers guidance and implementation advice to support the forest sector in reducing emissions and increasing carbon removals. Click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eFtwjj8c We look forward to seeing you there! You can find the full agenda for PEFC conference here: https://lnkd.in/e2Vm5WZS   #Decarbonization #Forestproducts #Climatecrisis #Sustainability #naturebasedsolutions #adaptation Jessica Fonseca da Silva Edie Marriner

🌳 💪 It was great to see FSG members turn out in force during WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s #LDMeeting24 ! 🌎 The theme of the meeting “laying the building blocks of transformation” permeated discussions throughout the week, including for FSG members who came together to advance on how to collectively drive progress towards a net-zero, nature positive and equitable future in and beyond the forest sector. 💬 📝We started with a full day of productive workshops and discussions on FSG’s main projects for 2024 and beyond, including development of an Equity Roadmap for the forest sector, and the identification of metrics to assess and disclose impacts of the implementation of nature positive actions as spelled out in the Forest Sector Nature Positive Roadmap. We also explored potential priorities for the sector beyond 2025. 👷♀️ 🌲 Over the following days, over the course of WBCSD’s Liaison Delegate meeting, FSG members brought a forest sector perspective in a number of sessions highlighting: ◾ the significance of relevant metrics to show progress on nature- positive actions and the importance of alignment across many emerging frameworks and regulations, ◾ the key role of well-designed carbon markets for high-integrity carbon credits recognising and valuing nature-climate solutions ◾ the importance of embracing a socially just transition agenda into the race against climate change and nature loss, hence paving the way for a net-zero FOR ALL. 🔊 The ambition of FSG members to lead the sector towards an inclusive transition is loud and clear, and they are eager to keep driving sector transformation throughout 2024 whilst contributing to the overall endeavour of WBCSD. #naturepositive #equity #forestproducts #justtransition #netzero Bernard de Galembert, Jessica Fonseca da Silva, Edie Marriner, Vaughan Andrews, Ara Erickson, Emma Johnstone, Eilidh Forster, Michael Goldsworthy, Richard Peberdy, Gladys Naylor, Nicolas Gordon, Veronica de la Cerda, Caitlin Clarke, Esben Brandi, Yuuko Iizuka, Jun Morita, Paula Guimaraes, Brandon Lewis, Antti Marjokorpi, Sophie Beckham, Sarah Price, Tracy Wessels, Giovanni Sale, Ylva Stiller, Michele Pisetta, Vincent Istace