Webinar: Supporting Europe’s forests through Sustainable Forest Management and carbon certification
EIT Climate-KIC, in cooperation with its INFORMA consortium partners, warmly invites you to the first open webinar and discussion on “Supporting Europe’s forests through Sustainable Forest Management and carbon certification”.
The webinar and discussion provide a virtual platform to share key insights and current (best) practices around sustainable forest management and forest carbon certification, as well as to learn more about INFORMA and how to collaborate with us further.
Date: Thursday 7th December 2023
Time: 09:30 – 11:30 CET
Location: Microsoft Teams
Webinar agenda
Time (CET) | Session |
09:30-09:40 | Welcome, agenda overview, and intro question |
09:40-09:50 | Presentation of INFORMA research project |
09:50-10:20 | SESSION 1 Presentation by content expert: Forest carbon certification methodologies Speaker: Julia Grimault, Team Lead, Forest-based sector, carbon certification, Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) Discussion: How can we build a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework in carbon certification that is robust enough to ensure transparent projects, but also cost-effective and implementable? What are the methods to monitor this carbon sequestration? |
10:20-10:50 | SESSION 2 Presentation by content expert: Carbon storage in wood products certification Speaker: Samy Porteron, Programme Manager, ECOS Discussion: Forests offer huge potential in carbon storage, sink, and sequestration. How can forest carbon certification support climate-smart forestry economies? |
10:50 – 11:20 | SESSION 3 Presentation by content expert: Managing supply and demand in a timber marketplace Speaker: Samuel Welsh, Forest Carbon Ltd |
11:20 – 11:30 | What next? How to get involved Co-creating sessions on improved carbon certification in Europe |
