FSC session at the Africa Climate Week 2022

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) will lead a session at the Africa Climate Week (ACW) 2022 on 30th August in Libreville, Gabon. The ACW is a week-long event that begins on 29 August and ends on 2nd September. ACW is a platform for governments and stakeholders to strengthen credible and durable response to climate change. It offers a unique opportunity for regional stakeholders to engage in climate discussions and highlight regional innovations and solutions.

The event is hosted by the government of Gabon and organised by UN Climate Change in collaboration with UN Development Programme, UN Environment Programme, UN Gabon, the African Union, the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank Group.

FSC promotes and deploys an integrated set of solutions to enable environmentally proper, socially beneficial, and economically practical management of the world's forests. FSC-certified forests have measurable contributions to both climate change mitigation and adaptation by showing positive impacts on carbon sequestration and conservation of carbon sinks, biodiversity, soil, water catchments, etc.

This session will enable participants – forest management professionals, researchers, practitioners, decision-making – to development a conceptual and practical understanding of the range of solutions that FSC deploys to achieve responsible forest management, and their contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as their positive impacts on ecosystem services such as carbon, biodiversity, soil, water, etc. The relevance of these solutions for the responsible governance of Congo Basin Forest will also be outlined and discussed.

Participants

Include African climate stakeholders including governments, civil society, international institutions, and forest sector players and other industry actors from Africa and beyond.

Format

The event is a hybrid event with onsite and online participants. This session will run for one-hour.

Speakers

George Akwah, Coordinator, FSC Congo Basin, Asger Olesen, Chief Climate and Ecosystems Services Officer, FSC, Esteban Toja, Certification Advisor, FSC Congo Basin, and Manushka Moodley, Coordinator, FSC Southern Africa.