Un proyecto climático certificado combinado con un compromiso adicional

Improved forest management for climate action and biodiversity 

Forests are true superheroes: they prevent desertification, purify water and air, store carbon, and are an important habitat to roughly 50 percent of all animal and plant species. Forests also play a key role in the fight against the climate crisis. Around 15 percent of global CO₂ emissions result from deforestation, making forest protection one of the most cost-effective solutions to mitigate climate change. 

Improved Forest Management (IFM) aims to increase the forest's capacity to store carbon, conserve the forest and reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation. 

Depending on the project, different IFM measures are implemented: 

• Extended rotation: Increasing the time between harvest cycles allows trees to grow larger, accumulate more biomass, and store more carbon. 

• Reduced-impact logging: Selective removal of individual trees preserves the forest structure, and promotes natural regeneration. 

• Build-up of timber stock: Less wood is harvested than naturally grows back, resulting in a continuous increase of forest biomass.

• Forest reserve: In natural forest reserves, all logging activities are entirely prohibited within a designated area. This significantly increases biomass and promotes high biodiversity.