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GLOBAL WEBINAR SERIES: SUSTAINABLE FOREST-BASED BIOECONOMY APPROACHES

Join FAO throughout 2025 for a global webinar series on sustainable forest-based bioeconomy approaches.

From data, policies and supply chains to financing and partnerships – discover key themes and understand how to unlock the forest sector’s transformative potential for decreasing reliance on non-renewable resources in a sustainable bioeconomy and transition to climate-positive societies.

News

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Global forest products facts and figures 2023 shows fall in global trade in wood and paper products
10/12/2024
FAO statistical overview records significant 12 percent drop from record levels in 2021-2022
Forests, trees and wild species in agrifood systems
Forests, trees and wild species key to healthy agrifood systems – FAO
31/10/2024
Forests and wild-harvested forest foods are crucial to achieving global interconnected biodiversity, climate and nutrition goals but are often overlooked in agrifood systems policies and programmes, according to a new brief by FAO and partners.
Building a sustainable bioeconomy in Africa through forest products – trends, opportunities and challenges
Africa’s forests can be a cornerstone of sustainable bioeconomy, FAO report
24/10/2024
Africa’s forests hold huge potential to contribute to a sustainable bioeconomy and help combat climate change if the region can overcome unique challenges, according to a new joint report by FAO and Dalberg.
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Publications

Sustainable management of logged tropical forests in the Caribbean to ensure long-term productivity
Sustainable management of logged tropical forests in the Caribbean to ensure long-term productivity
2021

The forest authorities of Belize, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, jointly with FAO and the University of Hamburg, implemented a regional project “Ensuring Long-Term Productivity of Lowland Tropical Forests in the Caribbean” financed by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

The protective functions of forests in a changing climate - European experience
The protective functions of forests in a changing climate - European experience
2021

Forest and farm producers – climate change sentinels
Forest and farm producers – climate-change sentinels
2021

This policy brief summarizes key findings and sets out six clear recommendations for how to build long-term climate resilience among smallholders.

Videos

International Day of Forests 2024: New solutions for a better world
21/03/2024

Innovation is unlocking the forests’ long-kept secrets and allowing us to use trees in ways we never imagined possible.

Sustainable wood: The manifesto
06/12/2022

Over the centuries, we’ve moved away from using wood as a building material, at great cost to the planet.

Sustainable wood: Climate-friendly cities
01/12/2022

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Sustainable wood: Housing a growing population
27/10/2022

A growing population means more buildings to fit everyone. By 2030, we will have to house an additional 3 billion people. Using wood from sustainably...

Sustainable Wood: Building the future
13/10/2022

Wood can be a material of the future, helping to build a bio-economy for the planet's health and economic recovery. Durable “cross-laminated timber”...

Forests and sustainable production and consumption
21/04/2022

For millions of people across the world, wood helps provide safe drinking water, food and shelter - but wood can do much more and is a renewable resource...

Is your toothbrush made of plastic or wood?
21/03/2022

Replacing more of the plastic things we use every day with wood-based products from sustainably managed forests can help combat climate change and achieve...

Sustainable forests: a powerful ally against climate change
24/02/2021

Climate change is subjecting our planet to unsustainable pressures. Forests and trees trap and store carbon as they grow – standing at the frontline...

Clean energy from sustainable wood
24/02/2021

The Sustainable Development Goals need forests
06/07/2018

Forests are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are a vital part of our global ecosystem. They not only contribute to...

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