At the Neutrality event, organized by Everwood and Institut Orygeen, which brought together the worlds of business and natural asset managers, France Valley announced the launch of a solution to support companies in their net zero strategy: a pan-European afforestation fund, constituting future forest carbon sinks.
Given the forecast price trends for carbon credits, preparing for carbon offsetting is a financial imperative, which must be carried out by companies in parallel with the industrial reorganization required to reduce their environmental footprint. France Valley enables them to do this, not by selling them carbon credits every year, but by enabling them to secure new natural carbon sinks for decades to come. Projects are already underway in France, the three Baltic states and Ireland, on unused land.
With a network of some 50 forestry technicians selected from all over Europe, France Valley has the capacity to identify, audit and negotiate bare land, plant diversified plantations and maintain them, to permanently change the carbon balance of these sites. Each plantation can be visited during the day. Each is carried out to the environmental standards of France Valley, which is recognized for its ability to increase the biodiversity hosting capacity of all the forests in its portfolio.
Arnaud FILHOL commented:
"For several years now, we've been asking ourselves how to meet the needs of companies with projects that aren't on the other side of the planet. Over the past three years, we've put our European network of forestry partners to the test, so we're able to provide a solution that's local, long-lasting, with no risk of non-additionality, and totally controlled from an operational point of view. We already manage tens of thousands of hectares of forest in 10 European countries. "
📸 Photo credit: Institut Orygeen
