Alemu Gonsamo & Lauren Cooper

Ottawa, ON—The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and McMaster University announce a new partnership to support the SFI Climate Smart Forestry Initiative, which is advancing the interpretation and implementation of climate-informed forestry practices across almost 120 million SFI-certified hectares in Canada. With investments from public and private sources… the initiative engages experts and SFI-certified organizations to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by identifying, developing, and implementing practices that meet the SFI 2022 Forest Management Standard objectives, while achieving co-benefits for biodiversity and wildfire risk reduction. …“Partnerships like this offer unprecedented opportunities to ensure forestry functions as a climate solution and provides sustainable forest products,” said Lauren T. Cooper, Chief Conservation Officer at SFI. …Leading the collaboration from McMaster University is Dr. Alemu Gonsamo, Associate Professor of McMaster University’s Remote Sensing Lab and Associate Director of McMaster Centre for Climate Change.