Climate change and sustainable wood

Forests are under pressure from climate-related stressors and the global demand for forest-based products is growing. Achieving a sustainable forest-based bioeconomy can support "enhanced efforts towards halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030" as recognized in the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, while contributing to achievement of the SDGs and the Global Forest Goals.

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) works collectively to support countries to accelerate progress towards achieving these forest-related goals and targets, and fully unlock the potential of forests and their goods and services, including for climate mitigation and adaptation. Under the umbrella of CPF, a range of initiatives are supporting the transition towards a sustainable forest-based bioeconomy, by strengthening collaboration on sustainable wood-based value chains and encouraging greater use of long-lived harvested wood products to extend forest carbon benefits, including in the building sector.

CPF members and partners are also supporting countries to enhance forest product data transparency and build capacity for carbon accounting, and mobilizing new investments and innovations in forest product value chains to support the transition to carbon neutral economies. Participants will also hear how governments, NGOs, private sector representatives, academia, Indigenous Peoples, youth and other stakeholders are taking actions at the global, regional and national level towards realizing the multi-faceted potential of the forest-based bioeconomy – with a focus on its essential role in climate action.