TU4F Webinar: Forests and the Climate Agenda, Aligning Science, Policy, and Business ahead of COP30
Date: Monday, 27 October 2025
Time: 13:00–14:15 CET
Format: Online (Teams Webinar), 75-minute interactive session
Forests play a critical role in the global climate agenda. As the international community prepares for COP30, this webinar will explore how science-based forest strategies can inform climate policy debates, and what is needed from business and policy actors to make these strategies both effective and trustworthy.
Building on recent Teaming Up 4 Forests (TU4F) activities, the session will examine the realistic contributions of forests and wood products to global mitigation pathways and highlight actionable solutions at the intersection of science, policy, and business.
Agenda:
- Opening and moderation: Alexander Buck, Executive Director, IUFRO
- Science–Policy framing: Nelson Grima, Science-Policy Programme Coordinator and TU4F Coordinator
- Policy perspective: Edith Paredes, Administrative Director, ACTO
- Business perspectives: Gladys Naylor, Group Head of Sustainability, MONDI and Bernard de Galembert, Director, Forest Solutions Group, WBCSD
- Interactive Q&A
