What the Global North can learn from the biobased building industry in the Global South
In 2026, the world’s tallest timber hybrid timber structure will rise–not in Europe, North America, or Australia–but in East Africa. The...
Learning While Doing
OMT’s Journey to Bring Timber Construction to East Africa If Zanzibar had been full of architects with biobased construction expertise a...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Learning from the Portland Airport
Why the commodities market doesn’t incentivize good forestry—and what we can do about it.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...