How Companies and Procurement Standards Can Protect Forests

Global concern over the health of forest ecosystems has grown in recent years. With good reason: Forests are critical to the health of our environment and our economy. For example, 53 percent of U.S. drinking water originates from forestland, and these same forests offset 12 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions. Yet forests face serious challenges from development, intergenerational land transfer and irresponsible forestry practices at a time when global demand is ever-increasing.

Forest certification standards emerged in the 1990s to provide the market with confidence that forest products come from responsibly managed forests. Today, demand for certified forest products outstrips supply, according to a 2012 report co-authored by the United Nations Environment Programme.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative launched a new set of standards in January 2015 which represents the interests of land managers, government agencies, industry, tribes, academics and researchers working together for the future of forests.

Many corporations are taking a stand on the future of our forests and are making direct investments in forests as part of their corporate strategies.

In this free one-hour webcast, you’ll learn:

• Why forests matter as a solution to clean water, clean air, biodiversity, climate change and sustainable communities and more.
• How responsible procurement of forest products can make a difference.
• How forest certifications are a proof point of responsible forestry in a much larger conversation around the future of forests.
• What a large multinational corporation is doing to invest in that future through philanthropy, paper procurement decisions and policies, forest carbon investments and more.
   

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