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Sustainable climate investments 2020

  • 2020

The handbook, by ItaSIF with inputs coming from a working group, analyzes the crucial role of sustainable finance in view of achieving climate targets.

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The “Sustainable climate investments” handbook analyzes the crucial role of sustainable finance in view of achieving climate targets, both in terms of integrating sustainability considerations into investment choices, and in financing mitigation and adaptation solutions. Within the handbook, Etifor developed chapter 5.1 related to agriculture and forests. The first part of the chapter

Webinar for GSTC Members Sustainable tourism approaches to tackle the climate crisis

  • 18.11.20

On Wednesday 18th November, at 18 o’clock (Rome Time), our team will present the webinar titled “Sustainable tourism approaches to tackle the climate crisis: examples from destinations in Italy”during which Catie Burlando and Federico Pinato of Etifor will share insights and lesson learned from their work with two tourist destinations in Italy: Valsugana-Lagorai (a certified sustainable destination to the GSTC Criteria) and Alta Badia.

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With more frequent and more severe extreme events, the consequences of the climate crisis are affecting people and businesses alike and the touristic sector, in Italy, has not been spared by the fury of such events: in October 2018, Vaia storm destroyed thousands of hectares of forests of the most famous mountain touristic

IUFRO Conference 6-9 October 2020

  • 6-9.10.2020
  • IUFRO Conference 6-9 October 2020
  • Responsible management
  • Bozen
  • 6-9.10.2020

Etifor is partner of the IUFRO Conference, the international event that will be held in Bozen from 6 to 9 October 2020. The conference, organised by Dept. TESAF of the University of Padua in collaboration with EURAC Reseach and IUFRO, will see leading experts address the social and ecological value added of small-scale forestry to the bio economy.

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Forest and Wellbeing

  • 2020
  • Forest and Wellbeing
  • Sustainable investments
  • 2020
  • I. Doimo; M. Masiero; P. Gatto

This review gives an overview of existing literature on the emerging topic of human wellbeing-forest. Read the whole abstract.

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Bridging Medical and Forest Research for Effective Forest-Based Initiatives

Intermediary organisations in collaborative environmental governance

  • 2020

This study makes an exploratory analysis of the EU-funded LIFE sub-programme for the Environment and its priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency focused on the role of networks and in particular of intermediary organizations by using Social Network Analysis.

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An exploratory analysis of the LIFE sub-programme for the Environment by using Social Network Analysis

Deforestation Made in Italy

  • 2020

Download for free the publication “Deforestation Made in Italy”. A report in Italian dedicated to the responsibility of Italian companies and consumers in the deforestation of tropical countries.

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This volume presents a summary of the contributions to the workshop "Deforestation made in Italy" held in Padua on 10 December 2019. After framing the issue of deforestation and forest degradation, analyzing the main drivers and impacts, the document presents methodological approaches and preliminary results relating to the estimate of the

SIMRA’s final Policy Brief How can Policy help bring about Social Innovation in Rural Areas?

  • 2020
  • SIMRA’s final Policy Brief How can Policy help bring about Social Innovation in Rural Areas?
  • Local development, Sustainable investments
  • 2020
  • Team SIMRA

This briefing explores the challenge of raising the profile of social innovation in policy-making, because although social innovation may happen as a result of citizen action alone, its impact can be much enhanced by the design of supportive policies.

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Diversify your financial portfolio through forest investments

  • 2019
  • Diversify your financial portfolio through forest investments
  • Sustainable investments
  • Global
  • 2019

Timberland investments represent an allocation of financial capital in a real asset, and consist of the acquisition and management of bare land to afforest or of a forest stand, with the goal to obtain a financial return. Learn more about the topic and innovate your financial portfolio through forest investments.

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INCREDIBLE Management of truffle plantations and development of mycosilviculture

  • 10.12.19
  • INCREDIBLE Management of truffle plantations and development of mycosilviculture
  • Responsible management
  • Varaždin, Croatia
  • 10.12.19

Although the truffle plantations have more than a decade of history in western European countries such as Spain, France and Italy, in Croatia they are still generally unknown. This Interregional workshop is an opportunity to gather European and national stakeholders and to present best case studies, so the methods of mycosilviculture development can be suggested and adopted regionally.

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Although the truffle plantations have more than a decade of history in western European countries such as Spain, France and Italy, in Croatia they are still generally unknown. This Interregional workshop is an opportunity to gather European and national stakeholders and to present best case studies, so the methods of mycosilviculture development can be suggested and adopted regionally.

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