PEFC will have an important role to play on the fourth day of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25, currently underway in Madrid. Today is set to be devoted to analysing the role of forests in the face of climate change. Source: Timberbiz
In addition to the negotiations on the reduction of carbon emissions that are taking place, the XXV Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Framework Convention has called on countries, international organizations and the private sector to act in the search for natural forest-based solutions.
At midday today in Spain, the General Secretary of PEFC Spain, Ana Belén Noriega, will participate in the High Level Meeting on Forests, as part of a panel that will address the mobilization of private resources to find solutions based on the forestry sector.
The session, chaired by Jennifer Morris, President of Conservation International, will open a space to present initiatives and discuss strategies to engage consumers in environmentally responsible forest actions.
Ana Belén will be joined on the panel by Pamela Castillo Brahona, Vice Minister of Environment of Costa Rica; Gabriel Quijandría Acosta, Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources of Peru; Dirk Forrister, CEO and President of International Emissions Trading Association (IETA); Luiz Cornacchioni, President of the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio (ABAG); and Mario Cerutti, Director of Institutional Relations and Sustainability of Lavazza in Italy.
Later in the afternoon, Ana Belén will share her reflections on the panel ‘Community Forest Enterprises: New models for adaptation and mitigation’, hosted by international stakeholder member RECOFTC, the Centre for People and Forests.
This official COP25 side event will discuss successful case studies of Community Forest Enterprises (CFEs) that have helped communities adapt to climate change, new businesses and business models that can source from CFEs and support their growth, and new ways of tracing and certifying the products derived from CFEs for consumers to be confident that their money is well spent.
