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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.

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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

Carbon Forestry Services

Trees, some of the oldest carbon sinks on earth, represent an opportunity to drive down your net carbon footprint or to develop carbon credits for others to reach their net-zero goals. We specifically support ARR (Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation), IFM (Improved Forest Management) and biochar projects. Our carbon forestry know-how is based on 45 years of work within the forest sector and silvicultural systems globally.

DD for investors and credit buyers: We assess the integrity, quality and risks of an ARR, IFM or biochar project
Valuations: We assess the value of your carbon forestry project as a stand-alone business or as part of a wider forestry business concept
Opportunity mapping: we map ARR, IFM or biochar credit generation possibilities within your existing business model or find a perfect area to develop a project
Project Development: We support in developing ARR, IFM or biochar projects based on our long-standing silvicultural know-how and expertise in the methodologies used in the voluntary carbon markets