Project summary:

WOOD4LIFE will engage the key actors of the forest value chain, it will test improved forest management practices in productive forests in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, for enhancing carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation and wood production to supply the industries of wood-based long-lasting products, such as the construction sector.

Overarching objective is to propose tools and business models to reactivate the forest value chain and strengthen its pivotal role in mitigating CC through carbon sequestration capacity and by providing less GHG-intensive materials, in line with the Carbon Farming Initiative. In particular, WOOD4LIFE will: increase and improve the forms of associations to enhance SFM for the provision of ES and wood for long-lasting products; improve CCM performances of forest-wood value chains through the engagement and training of key actors and the development of a value chain protocol for climate mitigation actions; reinforce the existing systems and development of business models for emissions compensation outside and within the value chain, through the improvement and development of PES. 

WOOD4LIFE acts at EU level, in Castilla-La Mancha region, with replication sites in Appennino Tosco Emiliano National Park in Italy, with replicability and transferability potential through FSC network.

PI: Francisco Ramón López Serrano

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