Green Growth Planning builds on national commitments to low-carbon development and climate change adaptation. Identifying innovative modes of economic development and sustainable uses for natural resources are key pillars of this planning.
Indufor works with national and subnational governments to evaluate baseline conditions and options for achieving sustainable development objectives, factoring in rules, markets, and capacity-building measures, and to determine the steps needed for financing and implementation.
We give guidance on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and develop sector-specific strategies for forestry and other sectors with outsized impacts on land, such as agriculture. We also design specific land-based interventions that nest within broader sectoral strategies and support countries seeking to engage at the international level.
Indufor is a Green Climate Fund-accredited private sector organisation with a team of negotiations experts trained under the UNFCCC. We offer in-depth understanding of multilateral environmental agreements and processes, and draw from years of experience advising international organisations and initiatives and their secretariats.
Our services in this area include:
- Reference emission level/reference level development
- Baseline development and projections
- Climate change risk assessment
- Forest/land governance assessment
- Low-carbon development planning
- REDD+ strategy development
- Climate change adaptation planning
- Program design and implementation support
- Policy design and technical support on institutional reform
- Carbon market analysis
Project examples include the following:
- Government of Mauritius: Coastal Adaptation Measures to Climate Change in Mauritius (2014-2017)
- Designing Bankable Projects for Forest and Land-Based Mitigation within a Jurisdictional Green Growth Approach in Indonesia, for the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
Area Experts
Mr Selänniemi holds a master's degree (MSc) in forestry from the University of Helsinki (1997) and a bachelor's degree (BSc) in forestry from Tammisaari School of Forestry (1981). He has been working in commercial forestry in Finland and in international development cooperation assignments for over 30 years. He has a solid background in institutional development and smallholder/community forestry, especially in Africa. He also has a deep understanding of project cycle management, and has led several project planning missions and managed a number of long-term technical assistance projects in forestry. He is fluent in Swedish, Finnish and English.
Blair Freeman, Head of Strategy and Sustainability with Indufor Asia Pacific (Australia), holds a Bachelor of Forest Science degree from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Blair has over 20 years of experience in providing advisory services on forest policy, strategic planning, natural resource management and sustainable development, across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
As project director and project manager, Blair has led a range of complex multi-disciplinary projects, including strategic reviews and program reviews relating to forest industry development, conservation and natural resources management. These projects have encompassed extensive stakeholder consultation and the provision of consulting advice to public and private sector clients, at executive and senior government levels.