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Production & Protection: Finding the Balance

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—RISI European Conference LisbonMarch 10th 2020

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Vision: The products we consume everyday represent some of our biggest impacts on the

planet. By transforming the way they are made we can help to regenerate our world.

Mission: With businesses, we drive the regeneration of Nature and People

How we work:

1. Engaging all actors in the value chain

2. Focusing on critical places where we co-design solutions to solve complex problems

3. Scaling what works through entrepreneurship, finance, technology and communications

Earthworm Foundation (formerly TFT)

Expertise on socialand environmental

issues

200 staff working across 5 continents with ground-based

projects

Foundedin

1999

Over 100 member companies

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People.ForestsSoils

Where we work

Indirect

• Palm Oil

• Cocoa

• Soy

Direct

• PP

• Charcoal

• Biomass

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Our Pulp & Paper Work

Responsible Sourcing Approach Driver

Forests & users under pressure

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1. Traditional industry

demand growing

2. Feedstock for the bio-

economy

3. Anthropogenic forest and

land use change

4. Natural disturbance and

long-term stresses

5. Indigenous and other

forest-dependent

communities

6. Climate and biodiversity

crises: Forest carbon &

habitat

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What we need to balance

Demand side:

• Reducing consumption

• Maximise recovered paper

content

Extraction/

Production

Protection/

Restoration

Forest Level:

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Evolving Approaches

Landscape Focus

Responsible Sourcing

Certification HCS & Starling

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Finding the balance - Dvinsky, Russia

Challenge: balancing HCV/IFL and

forestry/production

Our journey:

• 2016 - Nestlé stakeholder engagement

• 2017 - Eyes on Taiga campaign

• 2018 - Supply chain engagement (Starling)

• 2019 - Dvinsky Reserve created (300,000 ha)

• 2019 - Nestlé & MARS collaboration with WWF

• 2020 - Landscape collaboration – goals

• Protecting HCV

• SFM & intensification

• Livelihood development

• Climate & monitoring

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Take Aways

• Forests under increasing pressure –

keep them standing

• Finding the balance – transparency

& compromise

• Landscape – prioritise & focus

resources

• Collaborate – we cant find solutions

alone

© Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace

Alastair Herd – a.herd@earthworm.org

Earthworm Foundation – www.earthworm.org