How to contribute to stop rainforest deforestation Precious Woods Stephane Glannaz / Georg Mager
Without counting the invisible part, today still difficult to quantify • Migration • Genetic mutation • Species disappearance • Health Pollution (1/10 death ...) • ….
• Academic findings are clear and uncontested We carry the responsibility to be the last generation with the ability to stop climate change Every 1000 bn t of CO 2 = warming of 0.8-2.5 o C Remaining CO 2 budget to limit global warming < +2 o C: just 20 years! Source IPPC Deforestation and forest degradation represent up to 20% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions
The only way to stop deforestation is to turn environmental performance in revenue and so promote the usage of products coming from certified forests
Precious Woods at a glance PRECIOUS WOODS @ FSC’s GA 2017 Brazil Gabon Forest area 506’637 ha 624’000 ha Net area 68% 88% Employees 550 750 Communities 9 44 Area used per year 11’700 ha 22’000 ha Harvesting volume ha 12 m3 12 m3 Harvesting cycle 35 years 25 years Brazil Gabon Location: Amazon State Location: Gabon Founded in 1995 Acquired in 2007 Forest operations, timber Forest operations, timber processing and electricity processing and veneer production production FSC certification since 1997 FSC certification since 2008 IMPACT REPORTING 8
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Precious Woods Business Model Our Business: based on a triple bottom line Precious Woods conducts its business to create value in an economically, environmentally and socially balanced manner. Economic: We sustainably harvest and process hard wood locally in Africa and Brazil and market tropical wood products globally. Non-commercial biomass is used for energy generation. We obtain compensation for associated CO2 emission reductions. Environmental: Sustainable forestry conserves large, Social: We provide employment and potentially endangered forest areas education in disadvantaged regions. and Sustainably managing tropical forest, helps contain and counteract we give local communities the climate change. We set prospect of a decent living. aside major areas for conservation. 10
Forest inventory and monitoring (to harvest less than what the forest generates) - Flora - Fauna - Rivers - Communities sacred areas - …. 11 Impact reporting : PW Amazonas
Impact Reporting : PW A Deforestation outside the management area 12
Borneo deforestation 1960 - 2020
2° 50’ 02.21’’ S 58° 47’ 05.75’’ O UPA Q – 6 months after harvesting 14 IMPACT REPORTING 14
2° 50’ 02.21’’ S 58° 47’ 05.75’’ O UPA Q – 2 years after harvesting 15 IMPACT REPORTING
2° 50’ 02.21’’ S 58° 47’ 05.75’’ O UPA Q – 13 years after harvesting 16 IMPACT REPORTING
COP 21 Paris agreements have officially recorded in Article 5, sustainable forest management practices as conservation principle to motivate its development Article 5 / FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1 • 1.Parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases as referred to in Article 4, paragraph 1(d), of the Convention, including forests. • 2. Parties are encouraged to take action to implement and support, including through results-based payments, the existing framework as set out in related guidance and decisions already agreed under the Convention for: policy approaches and positive incentives for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon importance of incentivizing, as appropriate, non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests, …
« By promoting sustainable forest management practices , Precious Woods is much more than a timber supplier » The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) define global sustainable development priorities and aspirations for 2030 and seek to mobilize global efforts around a common set of goals and targets. The SDGs call for worldwide action among governments, business and civil society to end poverty and create a life of dignity and opportunity for all, within the boundaries of the planet.
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