All Episodes

Episode 87: The New AI Frontier in Forestry: Inside UPM’s Arnibot

Episode 86: Climate Change and FSC – Managing for Climate Impacts featuring Christian Messier, Amy Cardinal, and Vivian Peachy

Episode 85: Climate Change and FSC – What Is a Climate Vulnerability Assessment? Featuring Dr. Sheri Andrews-Key and Kevin Gillis

Episode 84: Climate change and FSC – Setting the stage, featuring Subhra Bhattacharjee, Director General at FSC International, and Valarie Courtois from the Indigenous Leadership Initiative

Episode 83: While we wait for EUDR - what could be done to get ready?

Episode 82: Reclaimed Materials & Circular Models in FSC: What’s Next for Chain of Custody? (Episode 2 of 2)

Episode 81: What Is Next in FSC Chain of Custody? A Glimpse Into the Revision Process (Episode 1 of 2)

Episode 80 – Circular economy in a volatile world: Building resilience through circular systems

Episode 79: Next stop - circular economy in FSC? Legislative drivers, principles and how FSC connects

Episode 78: Greenwashing and FSC: Is there a limit to what you can say?

Episode 77: Demystifying FSC Chain of Custody audits, Featuring César Gonçalves, Policy Manager for FSC CoC/CW, FSC International

Episode 76: Exploring FSC’s Strategy on GIS-Based Technologies

Episode 75: The Detail is in What We Measure: Making Impact Measurement a Reality

Episode 74 – EU Taxonomy – The vehicle behind green finance? Featuring Asger Olsen, International Woodland Company, and Ondrej Tarabus, FSC International

Episode 72 Circularity in FSC - How do we make a linear system circular? Featuring Loa Dalgaard Worm, leader of the FSC Circularity Hub

Episode 71: Can you count the impact of FSC on biodiversity? Featuring Joeri A. Zwerts, Assistant professor at Ecology and Biodiversity, Utrecht University

Episode 70: A new era for FSC? The effect of technology releases and legislation featuring Michael Marus, Chief Information Officer, and Marc Jessel, Chief System Integrity Officer at FSC international

Episode 69: Proof from the ground and sky - Combining forensic testing and earth observation, Featuring Scot McQueen, Senior Technology Officer at FSC International and Jade Saunders, Director of World Forest ID

Episode 68: How can we help you? – How FSC is aligning to EUDR (Chapter 2)

Episode 67: How can we help you? – How FSC is aligning to EUDR (Chapter 1)

Episode 66: What can filtering water tells us about biodiversity? Utilizing new techniques like eDNA and bio-acoustics

Episode 65:Joining forces from forest to ocean - Tropical timber in the Yachting Industry

Episode 64: Getting rid of the bad apples – FSCs work on risk based interventions

Episode 63: 1 + 1 = 11 – Partnerships as a catalyst for change

Episode 62: Solutionists – how business can fix the future

Episode 61: FSC in Ukraine: Providing meaning and value – a status 1,5 years into the war

Episode 60: FSC Check – how FSC will use risk evaluation as part of the certification process

Episode 59: The global perspective on EUDR, Getting granular on EUDR (episode 3 of 3)

Episode 58: How might we use existing technologies to comply? (Getting granular on EUDR, episode 2 of 3)

Episode 57: Setting the scene – Why requirements on geo location? Getting granular on EUDR (episode 1 of 3)

Episode 56: Revising standard in an agile and engaging way – how?

Episode 55: Measuring everything that we can see. Getting to forest specific impact data in FSC

Episode 54: One step at a time, FSCs new solution for community and family forests

Episode 53: There are rules, and then there are rules! FSC and legislation compliance

Episode 52: It is a wrap! Take aways from the FSC 2022 General Assembly

Episode 51: Getting to scale on biodiversity monitoring - eDNA as a new tool?

Episode 50: How can we compensate past harm? FSC on remedy and restoration, featuring Salem Jones, Jessica Surma and Kim Carstensen

Episode 49: Future forests – a conversation with IKEA and World Forest ID

Episode 48: Value creation : How can FSC help deliver on the SDGs?

Episode 47: Why people are important if we want to build lasting forest solutions

Episode 46: Scaling up forest-based solutions to climate change with investments

Episode 45: Warming up to the FSC general assembly 2022, featuring Kim Carstensen, FSC CEO and Zandra Martinez, FSC board chair

Episode 44: CSR 3.0 – what is it? And is it any good? featuring Etienne White, Let’s create possible

Episode 43: Fashion inside out – FSCs engagement in the Fashion industry, featuring Loa Worm and Ewa Hermanowicz

Episode 42: Using the power of value chains to engage rubber producing smallholders, Interview with Sean Nyquist, FSC Value Chain Development

Episode 41: First round of blockchain implementation – what did we learn and where do we go? Interview with Michael Marus and Julie Smith, FSC

Episode 40 Ready. Set. Go! How implementing standardised metadata will increase the value of our data, interview with Michael Marus, FSC and Patrick Mallet, ISEAL

Episode 39: Protecting forests and people in times of war, interview with Kim Carstensen, Lieske Van Santen and Marc Jessel, FSC

Episode 38 FSCs Technology wheel starting to spin, with Michael Marus, Marc Jessel and Scot McQueen, FSC International

Episode 37 Code green for humanity ahead? An interview with Etienne White, President for Brands for Good

Episode 36: Providing proof of the origin of timber, an interview with Marc Jessel, Chief System Integrity Officer at FSC International

Episode 35: Pivoting on digital audit reporting – an update interview with Steve Ball and Joanna Nowakowska, FSC International

Episode 34: Will consumers be driving the action? Featuring Procter & Gamble, Hunter Boots, GlobeScan and FSC

Episode 33: FSC Members edition – Day 5 highlights of the FSC General Assembly 2021 with Kim Carstensen, CEO

Episode 32: FSC Members edition – Day 4 highlights of the FSC General Assembly 2021 with Kim Carstensen, CEO

Episode 31: FSC Members edition – Day 3 highlights of the FSC General Assembly 2021 with Kim Carstensen, CEO

Episode 30: FSC Members edition – Day 2 highlights of the FSC General Assembly 2021 with Kim Carstensen, CEO

Episode 29: FSC Members edition – Day 1 recap of the FSC General Assembly 2021 with Kim Carstensen, CEO

Episode 28: FSC members edition: More digital technology in FSC? A discussion with members Seth Zuckerman, Melissa Graham and Gerrit Marias on Motion 61 and Motion 57 prior to the FSC General Assembly 2021

Episode 27: FSC members edition: FSC needs to take climate action now! A discussion with members Alan Smith and Mike Bekin on motion 48 and 20 prior to the FSC General Assembly 2021.

Episode 26: New roadmap to bring climate action front and center in FSC, Interview with Pina Gervassi, Climate and Restoration Engagement director and Asger Olesen, Chief Climate and Ecosystem Services Officer.

Episode 25: Taking a stand for workers rights, interview on the implementation of core workers rights in FSC with William Cook, CW/CoC Policy Officer and Vicky Tran, CW/CoC Policy Manager at FSC

Episode 24: Maintaining engagement in a pandemic, interview with Kim Carstensen, Guillemina Garza and Michael Marus, FSC

Episode 23: Making the simple the strongest, an interview with Marc Jessel, FSC Chief System Integrity Officer

Episode 22: Getting up to speed on Ecosystem services with Asger Olesen, FSC Chief Climate and Ecosystem Services Officer

Episode 21: Free, Prior and Informed Consent – the Canadian way with Pamela Perreault, Director, The Firelight Group and Francois Dufresne, President of FSC Canada

Episode 20: Making data from the ground a reality – an interview with Joanna Nowakowska, Deputy Director, FSC Technology and Information Unit

Episode 19: How blockchain can help FSC - Interview with CIO Michael Marus

Episode 18: What keeps the FSC International Board up at night? An interview with the members of the FSC International Board Strategic Planning Committee

Episode 17: A FSC relevant for communities, smallholders and Indigenous Peoples; FSC Global Strategy 2021-2026, Episode 3 of 3 featuring Vera Santos, New Approaches Program Manager and Francisco Souza, Managing Director, FSC Indigenous Foundation

Episode 16: New ways to find common ground. Landscape approaches in FSC with Gemma Boetekees, FSC Stakeholder Solutions Director and Claude Garcia, Senior Scientist at ETHZ and CIRAD

Episode 15: Auditing from the sky. The launch of FSC GIS Portal. Interview with Andres Ramirez, FSC GIS officer

Episode 14: Co-creating solutions for the World’s forests. FSCs Global Strategy 2021 – 2026, episode 2 of 3 featuring FSC Climate Director Pina Gervassi and WRI Senior Follow Walter Vergara

Episode 13: Utilizing data and technology to accelerate growth and impact. FSCs global strategy 2021 – 2026, episode 1 of 3 featuring FSC CIO Michael Marus and World Food Program CIO Enrica Porcari

Episode 12: FSC and climate mitigation. interview with Climate Director Pina Gervassi

Episode 11: Why FSC, ISEAL and the certification world need open data, interview with Michael Marus, CIO and CTO of FSC International and Patrick Mallet, ISEAL Director of Innovations

Episode 10: Showing the impact of FSC and linking with the research community, interview with Evaluations and learnings officer Franck Trolliet

Episode 9: Making FSC relevant for smallholders and communities worldwide. Interview with Vera Santos, New Approaches Project Manager at FSC

Episode 8: Can wood samples help save our forests and improve due diligence? interview with Roger Young, Agroisolab, and Phil Guillery, FSC

Episode 7: How does a certification scheme respond to disruption by a pandemic? Interview with Hans Joachim Droste, Chief Policy Officer at FSC

Episode 6 / Members edition: How is FSC responding as an organization to the COVID-19 pandemic? Interview with CEO Kim Carstensen

Episode 5 : The Good Code Hackathon. Interview with Caly Heasman from Docusign and Joanna Nowakowska from FSC

Episode 4: How blockchain can help FSC - Interview with CIO Michael Marus

Episode 3: How standardized data can help improve standards and measure impact. Interviews with Joanna Nowakowska and Chong Sean Zheng

Episode 2: How is GIS innovating FSC audits? Interviews with Joanna Nowakowska and Andrés Felipe Ramírez

Episode 1: Why should FSC digitalize? Interviews with Kim Carstensen, CEO, and Michael Marus, CIO.