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Certifying Ecosystem Services in Val di Fiemme

  • 2020

The Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme, a historic institution in the Italian Alps, manages a forest heritage of over 19,500 hectares, certified since 1997 under the FSC® standard. This territory is a model of sustainable forest management that protects biodiversity, ensures carbon sequestration, and preserves water and soil quality. However, extreme climatic events such as Storm Vaia have jeopardized the resilience of these forests and their ability to provide benefits—so-called ecosystem services—to the community and surrounding area.

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From storm Vaia to regeneration: the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme certifies positive impacts on carbon, biodiversity, water, soil, and tourism.

BioClima: Supporting biodiversity in Lombardy with the help of businesses

  • 2022 24

Within the framework of the Lombardy Region’s ‘Biodiversity and Climate’ call for proposals, the Cariplo Foundation awarded Etifor a contract to provide technical assistance services for beneficiary organisations interested in participating in the call for proposals.

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BioClima is a public-private initiative to support investments in protected areas in Lombardy

Certification and marketing of forestry products

  • 2020 2023
  • Certification and marketing of forestry products
  • Burkina Faso
  • AES-CCC

The villages communities have been actively involved in the project to reduce childhood malnutrition, diversify the families’ diet in rural areas and increase women’s access to monetary income. Through the platform wownature.eu, Etifor has supported women in raising funds to grow trees and get raw materials for oils and shea butter production. These products are now certified Cosmos Natural (2022) and WTFO (2023).

ResAlliance: increasing landscape resilience in the Mediterranean by involving farmers and foresters

  • 2022 2025
  • ResAlliance: increasing landscape resilience in the Mediterranean by involving farmers and foresters
  • Responsible management
  • CyprusGermanyGreeceItalyLebanonPortugalSpainTunisia
  • European Commission

  • EFI (SPAIN),

    FUNDACIO D’ECOLOGIA DEL FOC I GESTIO D’INCENDIS PAU COSTA ALCUBIERRE (SPAIN),

    CONSORCI CENTRE DE CIENCIA I TECNOLOGIA FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA (SPAIN),

    INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES (SPAIN),

    ELLINIKIS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS – DIMITRA (CYPRUS),

    ETIFOR (ITALY),

    D.R.E.AM. ITALIA (ITALIA),

    AGENZIA FORESTALE PER LO SVILUPPO DEL TERRITORIO E DELL’AMBIENTE DELLA SARDEGNA (ITALY),

    CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH (GERMANY),

    INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA (PORTUGAL),

    JOUZOUR LOUBNAN ASSOCIATION (LEBANON),

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES EN GENIE RURAL, EUAX ET FORESTS (TUNISIA),

    MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA (GREECE),

    FEDERATION EUROPEENNE D’AGROFORESTERIE ASSOCIATION (FRANCE),

    INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE (IUCN)

     

In face of increasing extreme weather events brought by climate change, ResAlliance aims at facilitating knowledge and good practices exchange to increase farmers’ and foresters’ capacity on landscape resilience.

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The ResAlliance project focuses on four main themes: landscape governance, land management, finance and technology.

LIFE ClimatePositive: promoting partnership for better forest management

  • 2022

The LIFE ClimatePositive project wants to promote SMART associations and innovative financing for responsible forest management and the enhancement of carbon sinks. The aim is to help small forest managers in finding financing for their activities.

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Promoting SMART partnerships and innovative financing for responsible forest management and the strengthening of carbon sinks

Luxottica and the restoration of the forests damaged by Vaia

  • 2020

In 2020 Luxottica decides to embark on a journey to reduce its emissions and improve its impacts, while restoring the forests around Agordo affected by the storm Vaia. With the goal of restoring an area of more than 30 hectares, this project is the largest forest restoration project funded by a private company in the areas affected by Vaia.

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The Agordo-based company embarks on a project to improve its impacts and contribute to the recovery of the territory after the storm

Multidisciplinary project development for new urban forests in the Metropolitan City of Venice

  • 2021
  • Multidisciplinary project development for new urban forests in the Metropolitan City of Venice
  • Sustainable investments
  • Municipalities of Venice, San Donà di Piave and Concordia Sagittaria, Metropolitan City of Venice

Coordination of a multidisciplinary team for the development of two new urban forests creation projects in different areas of the Metropolitan City of Venice. The projects were successfully presented to a call for funding of the Italian Ministry of Environment’s Climate Decree.

Promoting a new approach to Urban Forestry in Europe

  • 2021 2023
  • Promoting a new approach to Urban Forestry in Europe
  • Sustainable investments
  • ItalyRomaniaIrelandNetherlandsSwedenSpain
  • European Commission

  • Ersaf,
    Polimi,
    Etifor | Valuing Nature,
    EFI,
    UAB,
    Creaf,
    Agresta,
    Unitbv,
    Forest Design Srl,
    Trinity College Dublin,
    Nbsi,
    Green City Watch

The project aims at promoting Europe’s innovation capacity among universities, cities and businesses to deliver a new approach to Urban Forestry.

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Uforest: a project involving Italy, Spain, Romania, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden

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