Home / Services / Climate Change and Natural Capital Sustainability

Climate Change and Natural Capital Sustainability

Advising clients on sustainable forest management strategies and forest carbon projects as nature-based solutions to climate change challenges.

Discover our services

Meet our areas experts

Indufor has extensive experience in assessing opportunities to address climate change risks and impacts. We develop and validate forest carbon project methodologies and their implementation, green growth business models, and corporate financial disclosures.

Our services for Climate Change and Natural Capital Sustainability include:

Forest Policy and Governance

Indufor employs an integrated, cross-sectoral approach to policy development, and draws on its global team of staff and associates for multi-disciplinary expertise. We support governments and other stakeholders to review forest governance arrangements and develop robust forest policy.

These processes incorporate clear consideration of good governance principles, including clarity of purpose and function, transparency, accountability and intergenerational equity, with independent oversight and regular reviews.

Conduct benchmarking of forest policy settings
Develop and assess forest policy options
Review the feasibility of climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes

Natural Capital Valuations

Indufor is a global leader in conducting forest valuations and appraisals and is increasingly incorporating natural capital reporting principles and standards into its standard valuation processes. This practice is well established for carbon values and Indufor works closely with clients to address quantitative or qualitative metrics for other natural capital values, including biodiversity, watershed management and landscape restoration.

Support preparation of natural capital accounts
Conduct natural capital valuations
Review corporate capability for reporting under TCFD and TNFD frameworks

Sustainability Standards and Certification Benchmarking

Forest owners demonstrate commitment to sustainable management of land by adhering to sustainability standards and voluntary certification programmes. Our experts recognise the wide array of international standards and certification arrangements developed for forests and timber production (e.g. FSC and PEFC), biomass (e.g. the Sustainable Biomass Programme and applicable regulations), palm oil (e.g. RSPO and related national standards), and cocoa and other agricultural commodities.

Develop sustainability standards for forestry and forest carbon projects
Conduct performance gap analyses using sustainability and certification standards
Compare coverage and robustness of sustainability and certification standards and programmes

Forest Carbon Services

Forest-based carbon sequestration, as a nature-based solution, represents an opportunity to drive down the net carbon footprint while generating other highly valuable benefits, including positive contributions to biodiversity and local economies. Indufor provides the special expertise and uncompromised integrity required to ensure successful implementation of projects in this field.