Lauren Cooper and Kylie Clay publishing two-part report on Safeguards for a Sustainable Forest Economy

Part I of the report is titled "Needs and Principles for CSFE Safeguards," and Part ll is titled "Efficient and Effective Safeguards Assessment and Implementation for a Climate-Smart Forest Economy".

Forest Carbon and Climate Program graphic showing cascading themes in CSFE safeguards: 1) Values; Global Guiding Principles, 2) Criteria and Metrics: enabling conditions and issue areas, 3) Prioritization: risk-based approach, proxy identification, and data collection, and 5) Communication: making CSFE claims.
Cascading Themes in CSFE Safeguards

Lauren Cooper, FCCP Program Director, and Kylie Clay, FCCP Associate Director, developed a two-part report for the Climate Smart Forest Economy Program (CSFEP). In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and generously supported by Good Energies Foundation, this report lays a foundation for CSFE social and environmental standards with fundamental principles to guide more efficient, equitable, and impactful safeguard assessment and implementation. In addition, it explores approaches and tools for actors to implement, including existing guidance and available data sources for more efficient safeguards assessment.

Part I, "Needs and Principles for CSFE Safeguards," outlines 1) issue areas regarding Safeguard concerns for a CSFE, 2) enabling conditions, 3) safeguard challenges for CSFE assessment and implementation, and 4) global guiding principles to encourage and facilitate the strategic application of social and environmental safeguards associated with CSFE interventions.

Part ll, "Efficient and Effective Safeguards Assessment and Implementation for a Climate-Smart Forest Economy," outlines 1) risk-based approaches to assessing risk levels of CSFE issue areas to inform prioritization and next steps, 2) proxy data, 3) assessment and monitoring guidance, and 4) tools for ambitious CSFE assurances including examples and templates for application of CSFE safeguards framework.

View the full report here

Visit the FCCP Projects and Research page to learn more about CSFEP and FCCP collaboration.

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