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Sectoral performance of water management in plantations-based industry

XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1p.

Author Marangon de Campos, C. B., Granato Loures, N.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Synopsis (short abstract) The plantations-based industry in Brazil holds near 8 mi ha of planted trees and sets aside 5.6 mi ha for conservation. It provides raw materials for more than 5 thousand products that represent 7% of Brazil’s industrial GDP.
When it comes to water, the sector has been historically researching the relationship between this resource and plantations. But since 2014, Ibá, the association representing politically and institutionally this sector, started leading initiatives to give more space to this theme, moving it towards a strategic and proactive approach.
The remarkable and most recent initiative is the unprecedented report "Taking care of water is taking care of everyone's future", which aims at providing governance and transparency to the continuous monitoring of the main water management practices in the plantations-based companies.
The monitoring is based on KPIs collaboratively defined with research institutes and covers the usage of water in nurseries, forests, industry, and the corporate environment from 2016 to 2019. Many of those KPIs are linked to SDG 6, 9, 12, and 15 as well as to the UNFF GFG 1 and 4. The report as a whole provides a basis for the ESG concept, as well.
The results have shown that forest management practices that balance production and water availability together with increased efficiency in industry and multistakeholder dialogue are the backbone of water management in this sector. The highlighted results are: 100% of the companies adopt practices that conserve the soil and water, such as protection of springs and prevention of erosion; and 82% and 53% of the water captured by the pulp and paper and the panel industries, respectively, return to the water bodies after treatment.
The report also has 11 projects that give a practical overview of how the KPIs are being implemented by companies and sets publically and straightforward commitments that reflect the attention of this industry with the shared-responsibility of this natural resource. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection|Adaptive and integrated management|Sustainable forest management ID: 3486863

Statutory body / Meeting title World Forestry Congress (WFC)

Language English

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