Climate Smart Forest Economy Program (CSFEP)

🏆 C40 Cities and Novo Nordisk celebrate the winners of the Healthy Cities Challenge! Hear from the GoDown Arts Centre and Nairobi City County Government about their plans to improve road safety for pedestrians and create inclusive public spaces on the busy Dunga Road in Nairobi. Winners in Buenos Aires, Nairobi and Rio de Janeiro will each receive US$100,000 to scale up ambitious projects that build healthy, green and thriving neighbourhoods. Learn more about C40’s Green & Thriving Neighbourhoods work: https://c40.me/4eXBt8w

We have always recognised, via our networks, Frontrunners and allies that the management of moisture in timber buildings is absolutely essential to ensuring their adoption and longevity. That's why it's important schedule this comprehensive webinar: "Mitigating Moisture Risks in Wood Construction" into your diaries NOW for the afternoon (CET) of January 14, 2025. Brought to you by Built by Nature and the Danish Technological Institute in partnership with Build-in-Wood, this event will provide relevant knowledge and practical strategies for moisture management in wood construction. Topics covered will include: 👉 "Importance of moisture strategies in wood construction", with Niels Morsing, Danish Technological Institute, and key challenges facing the construction industry. 👉"Typical building damages caused by moisture", presented by Peder Fynholm, Building Damage Fund (DK), focusing on social housing projects and renovations in Denmark. 👉Policy Advisor Jim Glockling, Association of British Insurers, will discuss "Mitigating Moisture Risk: An Insurer's View on Sustainable Timber Construction" and review the insurance landscape for timber construction, concerns from an insurance perspective, and risk mitigation strategies. 👉"Guide to moisture management in wood construction" with wood specialists Joanna Schalnat and Fabia Baumann, from the Danish Technological Institute will cover findings and recommendations from ongoing projects; insights from the Build-in-Wood Demonstrator project, and introduce the new guide to moisture management developed by DTI. 👉"Bridging the Gap – Aligning Design, Construction, and Insurance for Moisture-Resilient Timber Buildings", a panel discussion moderated by Built by Nature's Mona Menadi, with Jim Glockling, Peder Fynholm, Fabia Baumann, and Kirsten Haggart from Waugh Thistleton Architects. These experts will address the key questions of: ❓ How to integrate moisture management strategies in the design phase ❓How to balance sustainability goals with moisture resilience ❓How to address insurers' concerns through innovative design and construction practices ❓The role of ongoing monitoring and maintenance in long-term moisture management... With time left for an audience Q&A. This is an informative way to kick-start the new year! More details and registration below... #timberconstruction #moisturemanagement #riskmitigation

Built by Nature is a proud supporter of this important document, launched last night and released today: the Commercial Timber Guidebook is a collective, collaborative response to questions and concerns associated with the adoption of mass timber as a sustainable construction material. The Guidebook addresses these challenges, providing good practice technical guidance on how mass timber buildings are designed and constructed to cover the critical areas of insurance, moisture, durability and fire safety. Perhaps as importantly, the Guidebook represents the support and involvement of nine major property developers in the UK -- Berkeley Estate Asset Management, British Land, Derwent London, Hines, Landsec, Lendlease, Muse, Related Argent and Stanhope PLC -- with a "collective potential multibillion development pipeline value, along with the appetite for the adoption of mass timber construction." Congratulations to the authors: Elliott Wood, Waugh Thistleton Architects, OFR Consultants and Lignum Risk Partners. Our project allies at Timber Development UK have posted the Guidebook, available for downloading, on their site: https://lnkd.in/evicRkx6 Read the press release announcing the launch of the Guidebook here: https://lnkd.in/giesYGhQ #timberbuildings #masstimber #riskmanagement #biobasedmaterials #insurance #decarbonisation

This week I wrote down what I had learned this past year. As I did so, I realized so many of my learnings were about communications. So, it seemed only fitting to communicate them. (Side note: A huge thank you to the Climate Smart Forest Economy Program (CSFEP), where I am the Partnerships Director—and which provided fertile ground for my learning.) In brief, here’s what I learned (or re-learned) about communications this year: 🌟 If you don’t tell your own story, others will tell it for you.🌟 Like many early-stage nonprofits, CSFEP poured energy into the work itself, leaving communications as an afterthought. Website updates and LinkedIn posts happened hastily, squeezed into a few extra minutes during the day or after-hours. But information vacuums get filled. By early 2024, we noticed that others often didn’t understand who we were and what we were doing. To be fair, they were working with the information we had given them—information that was often outdated, unclear, or incomplete. 🌟 Everything is a story—and you can change the story.🌟 Once we understood how others saw us, we were better equipped to ask: What is the story we want people to understand about us? And what information do they need to get there? Each week, we committed to small, regular efforts to share updates that better conveyed our vision, our work and our impact--aiming to convey stories about our work that would resonate with our partners, friends, and future collaborators. 🌟 Even 10% better makes a difference.🌟 We didn’t have capacity to double communications efforts. So, we focused on improving by just 10%. With clear goals and small, consistent efforts each week (mostly in the last two quarters of 2024), we saw results. 🔥  1,000 new LinkedIn followers 🔥  600+ newsletter subscribers 🔥 4 invitations to present at conferences 🔥 A re-launched website Most importantly, the conversations changed. People no longer said, “I don’t understand.” Or “That’s not what I read.” Instead, they started saying: "Tell me more about this part." I’m deeply grateful to all the CSFEP colleagues I had the chance to work with--and learn from--this year: Bongiwe Shongwe Charlotte Baylis Robyn van den Heuvel George McLoughlin Tena Petrovic Simeon Max Devang Vussonji Jamie Micah Lawrence Daniel Zimmer Here’s to all the stories we'll get to tell in 2025! (Photo of one of my favorite nearby forests)

👉🏽 Are you passionate about forests, climate action and strengthening Indigenous People and local communities’ rights? 🌴🦜The FCLP team is looking for a Policy Lead, who is going to facilitate the workstream on Indigenous Peoples, and local communities, supporting the country co-leads, Norway and Peru.   As Policy Lead, you’ll play an important role in advancing global recognition of land tenure rights and supporting tropical forest countries in shaping national policies that champion IP&LCs. This is your chance to help drive transformative action in forest protection and the fight against deforestation.   𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝐶𝐿𝑃? ✨Make a difference! Working with the FCLP you can contribute to forest protection, support IP&LCs and end deforestation by 2030 and therefore have a true impact. 🤝Work with an ambitious, fun and international team committed to protect forests 🏡 Enjoy the benefits of a home-based position with flexible hours. 📃Permanent contract (level IICA2 / LICA10)   𝑊ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟? 👩🏾🎓University degree (Master’s or equivalent) preferably in environment, policy, law, international relations, economics or related field with five (5) years of relevant experience is required; OR First level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) with seven (7) years of relevant experience. 🌳 Experience in working on forests and land-use, climate change, REDD+, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities rights 🏛️ Experience in working with governments, IP&LCs or tropical forest country governments ✍🏼 Experience in drafting high-level documents 💬 Languages: English and Spanish (required), French or Portuguese (desirable)   📅 Apply by December 17, 2024 (midnight CET): Don’t miss this opportunity to make a difference. Submit your application directly via the UNOPS website: https://lnkd.in/eMFe94Wn   Let’s protect forests and secure the rights of those who call them home.   #GreenJobs #ForestProtection #JobOpportunity #IndigenousRights #OpenVacancy

Realising the potential of wood-based materials in a #CircularEconomy ♻🌳 The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an international charity committed to fostering the development of a circular economy. It has recently brought organisations in its Network together to produce a briefing paper called “Realising the potential of wood-based materials in a circular economy”, which explores how regenerative forestry can generate additional value to benefit the environment, the economy and society. The briefing paper was drafted by Ramboll and commissioned by Essity, Metsä Group, SCGC - SCG Chemicals and Tetra Pak. As users and/or producers of wood-based materials, the project participants investigated the need for and the opportunities of regenerative forestry with support from Brambles, CHEP, H&M Group, Haleon and Marimekko. Ramboll has contributed our expertise in regenerative design, biodiversity, circularity and environmental economics to the project. “Wood-based materials play a key role in the transition to a more sustainable and circular future. At the same time, increased use and extraction of forest resources risk depleting ecosystems and biodiversity. Regenerative forestry can be a way to find a balance between production and nature values, and we see this briefing paper as an important step in the development of such a system,” explains Nicklas Gustavsson, Lead Consultant at Ramboll. Want to know more? Swipe the carousel below or visit the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s website to learn more: https://lnkd.in/dzxtFj98 #LetsCloseTheGap #WoodBasedMaterials

Easy Housing has officially received certification for the world’s first bio-based construction stored carbon removal credits!   With 103 carbon removal credits now available, this is a groundbreaking achievement for the nature-based world! With 95% of the voluntary carbon market being reduction credits, these removal credits represent real carbon taken from the atmosphere stored for a long term! Certified by Oncra, the carbon removal registry developed by Climate Cleanup , we are offering these first 103 credits at a limited price of just €50 per removal unit! This carbon removal project developed by Wolf Bierens was realised through the first 10 Easy Housing timber projects in Uganda. In addition to removing carbon, these projects have preserved over 10 football fields of forests, created more than 100 green jobs, and avoided an estimated 80 additional tonnes of CO2 by eliminating the use of cement and steel. Whether you’re looking to offset your emissions, support a transformative cause, or amplify your impact, this project delivers on all fronts! These construction-based projects were made possible by the incredible work of Built by Nature, in partnership with Climate Cleanup, to develop the Construction Stored Carbon methodology. This transparent and rigorous methodology relies on quantifiable, verifiable data, all of which you can explore at: https://lnkd.in/d9fBVz-q Contact us at Scature for more information and availability of these limited removal credits!