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2024: A Year of Biobased Construction Innovations in Africa

Throughout 2024, African businesses and collaboratives continued to drive innovation across the continent. Here, we share three inspiring...

CSFEP Team

A Global Movement, Locally Driven

How CSFEP’s evolving model reflects its learning In 2021, the Climate Smart Forest Economy Program (CSFEP) selected and launched 15...

CSFEP Team

Why we need to talk about forests when we talk about carbon and construction

Lately, wood has reemerged as both the newest and oldest answer to the construction industry’s carbon footprint challenges. However,...

Robyn van den Heuvel

IUFRO is heading to Nairobi, marking the first time the Congress will be held in Africa. Why does that matter so much?

This past June, I had the opportunity to attend the 2024 International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress in...

Tena Petrovic

Learning from the Portland Airport

Why the commodities market doesn’t incentivize good forestry—and what we can do about it.

Brian Kulubya

Sustainable Forestry and Easy Housing: Building a Home for Everyone

Brian Kulubya - Sustainable Forestry Expert at Easy Housing Introduction In our pursuit of a more sustainable future, one industry stands...

Bernie Mshana; Caris Zwane; and Kagisho Koza

The Future of Construction: A Wood Revolution

The built environment and construction sector have been known to consume exorbitant amounts of energy and environmentally strenuous...

Bernie Mshana; Caris Zwane; and Kagisho Koza

Harvesting trees good: Building a climate smart forest economy in East Africa

When we speak of conserving the environment, for most of us, tree planting comes top of mind. From an early age, we are taught that...

Kagisho Koza, Dalberg Advisors; and Bernie Mshana

Safeguards: Practical tools for maximizing the benefits of Climate Smart Forest Economies

Current population growth trends suggest that the global built environment will double by the year 2050, the equivalent of building an...

Robyn van den Heuvel

Reflecting on our Learnings

CSFEP was created in 2020 as a collaborative enquiry into a theory that forests were being underutilized as a climate solution. We...

EIT Climate-KIC

Podcast: Developing Europe's first 'Forest-to-City' value chain with Tena Petrovic

Republished, with permission, from Climate-KIC. Read the original version here: https://www.climate-kic.org/podcast/forest-to-city-value-...

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Podcast: Building a sustainable mass timber market in East Africa with Syakaa William

Republished, with permission, from Climate-KIC. Read the original version here: https://www.climate-kic.org/podcast/mass-timber-market-ea...

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Podcast: Using wood to substitute fossil-based products with Daniel Zimmer

Republished, with permission, from Climate-KIC. Read the original version here: https://www.climate-kic.org/podcast/how-could-we-daniel-z...

Jamie Lawrence; Rod Taylor; Mark Wishnie; Daniel Zimmer

Transitioning to a Climate-Smart Forest Economy: The 3S Framework

Transitioning to such a Climate-Smart Forest Economy will require comprehensive policy change based on sound science to drive market...

Jamie Lawrence; Rod Taylor; Mark Wishnie; Daniel Zimmer

Imagining a Climate Smart Forest Economy

As the global population increases, particularly in cities, the pressure on the world’s resources is accelerating exponentially. In fact,...

Robyn van den Heuvel

How Bhutan could provide the blueprint for global climate smart forest economies

Sandwiched between Tibet and India in Southern Asia, the Kingdom of Bhutan is a rapidly developing country with a rapidly growing...

Norbert Henninger

BUILDING ALLIANCES FOR CLIMATE SMART FOREST VALUE CHAINS AND CLIMATE SMART FOREST ECONOMIES

Value chain alliances: what are they and why are they important? CSFEP is working with partners to explore the feasibility of climate...

Tena Petrovic

Field Dialogue on Climate Positive Forest Products in Finland

INTRODUCTION Two weeks ago, the Climate Positive Forest Products (CPFP) Field Dialogue took place in Finland, attended by forty global...

World Economic Forum

Sustainable timber and the built environment: an opportunity to reach net zero

Continued global urbanization and population growth trends suggest that global buildings’ stock will have to double by 2060. This is...

Devang Vussonji (Partner) & Mokena Makeka (Principal) - Dalberg Advisors

A FOREST ECONOMY FOR THE FUTURE

Generating social and economic dividends from more sustainable, circular sources By Devang Vussonji, Mokena Makeka, and Fitsum Gelaye...

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