Production & Protection: Finding the Balance · 2020-03-16 · 8 Finding the balance - Dvinsky,...
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Production & Protection: Finding the Balance
www.earthworm.org
—RISI European Conference LisbonMarch 10th 2020
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Vision: The products we consume everyday represent some of our biggest impacts on the
planet. By transforming the way they are made we can help to regenerate our world.
Mission: With businesses, we drive the regeneration of Nature and People
How we work:
1. Engaging all actors in the value chain
2. Focusing on critical places where we co-design solutions to solve complex problems
3. Scaling what works through entrepreneurship, finance, technology and communications
Earthworm Foundation (formerly TFT)
Expertise on socialand environmental
issues
200 staff working across 5 continents with ground-based
projects
Foundedin
1999
Over 100 member companies
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People.ForestsSoils
Where we work
Indirect
• Palm Oil
• Cocoa
• Soy
Direct
• PP
• Charcoal
• Biomass
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Our Pulp & Paper Work
Responsible Sourcing Approach Driver
Forests & users under pressure
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1. Traditional industry
demand growing
2. Feedstock for the bio-
economy
3. Anthropogenic forest and
land use change
4. Natural disturbance and
long-term stresses
5. Indigenous and other
forest-dependent
communities
6. Climate and biodiversity
crises: Forest carbon &
habitat
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What we need to balance
Demand side:
• Reducing consumption
• Maximise recovered paper
content
Extraction/
Production
Protection/
Restoration
Forest Level:
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Evolving Approaches
Landscape Focus
Responsible Sourcing
Certification HCS & Starling
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Finding the balance - Dvinsky, Russia
Challenge: balancing HCV/IFL and
forestry/production
Our journey:
• 2016 - Nestlé stakeholder engagement
• 2017 - Eyes on Taiga campaign
• 2018 - Supply chain engagement (Starling)
• 2019 - Dvinsky Reserve created (300,000 ha)
• 2019 - Nestlé & MARS collaboration with WWF
• 2020 - Landscape collaboration – goals
• Protecting HCV
• SFM & intensification
• Livelihood development
• Climate & monitoring
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Take Aways
• Forests under increasing pressure –
keep them standing
• Finding the balance – transparency
& compromise
• Landscape – prioritise & focus
resources
• Collaborate – we cant find solutions
alone
© Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace
Alastair Herd – [email protected]
Earthworm Foundation – www.earthworm.org