HCSA announced as a Top Innovator Winner of the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge at COP 26

Today at COP26’s Nature Pavilion, the HCSA was announced as one of the five Top Innovation winners of the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge by Lord Zac Goldsmith, the U.K.’s Minister of Environment, in recognition of HCSA’s efforts to halt tropical deforestation and accelerate inclusive integrated conservation land-use practices.

Tropical rainforests are staggeringly productive reservoirs of life and biodiversity, and their protection is a critical nature-based solution that will contribute real progress toward limiting global warming to 1.5°C.  One of the main drivers of tropical deforestation, and a consequential contribution to climate change, biodiversity loss, adverse livelihood impacts, is agricultural and plantation expansion. The HCSA is the most widely recognised and credible method being used to address deforestation in agricultural and plantation expansion in the tropics.

To take action to stop commodity-driven deforestation and scale nature positive land-use practices, under the UK Government UNCOP26 Presidency’s FACT (Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade) Dialogue initiative,[i] the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge was launched and supported the World Economic Forum’s Uplink Innovation Network, the Tropical Forest Alliance, and other supporting partners.[ii]  The Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge was seeking breakthrough scalable solutions to deliver benefits to the global environment, while also ensuring sustainable livelihoods for stakeholders and systematic change to shift commodity-supply chains to responsible land use production that protects rather than clears High Carbon Stock forests e High Conservation Value areas.  

As a Top Innovator winner, HCSA effectively demonstrated that it has made progress, which can be further scaled and accelerated, against all the Challenge’s focus areas: market transformation; smallholder success; research and innovation; and traceability and transparency. [iii]

The HCSA’s mission is to end commodity-driven tropical deforestation by providing land managers with practical, credible, and inclusive tools for land use planning. It is a Caixa de ferramentas that uses remoting sensing data and ground surveys to distinguish forest areas for protection from degraded lands that may be developed whilst ensuring that the rights and livelihoods of communities and workers are respected.  It can be used for integrated land use planning in any country and commodity grown in tropical moist forest landscapes. The HCSA is innovating its methodology for application by independent smallholders and will soon publish a procedure for producing high-quality indicative HCSA-HCV maps at a landscape level. The HCSA Toolkit has been used or trialled in 12 countries for plantations of oil palm, pulpwood, cocoa, and rubber and is recognised as a Nature-based Solution to climate change by the UN.

As a winner of the Challenge, the HCSA has been invited to join the UpLink Innovation Network of the World Economic Forum’s four-month Top Innovator Programme.[iv] This programme will facilitate profiling and networking opportunities to support the scaling of the implementation of HCSA along with the other challenge winners.  HCSA’s is excited to engage in the Top Innovator Programme and forge new collaborations and support to achieve its goal of conserving five million hectares of tropical forest by 2025 and realise the vision where natural forests linked to commodity production and consumption are conserved and restored throughout the tropics in cooperation with indigenous peoples and local communities.

[i] The FACT dialogue initiative is co-chaired by the UK and Indonesian government, with support from the Tropical Forest Alliance, to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable land-use practices around agriculture.
[ii] The Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge initiative is led by the Tropical Forest Alliance and Uplink, FACT Dialogue, UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021, run in partnership with supporting partners: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Stockholm Environment Institute, WAIK, Wilmar.
[iii] The HCSA addresses the Tropical Commodities Challenge four focus areas in the following ways:
1. Market Transformation
The HCSA is widely used by market actors to demonstrate implementation of their No Deforestation commitments; it is enabling methodology for supporting responsible business practices/products that contribute to long-term tropical forest protection.
2. Smallholder Success
To support access for independent smallholders and communities to conserve High Carbon Stock forests and High Conservation Values areas in tropical forests, the HCSA is developing and trialling ‘A Simplified HCS-HCV Approach for Smallholders’.
3.Transparency & Traceability
O Kit de ferramentas HCSA is open access but requires registration of planned HCSA assessments and working with accredited practitioners. HCSA assessment conservation and community use outcomes are reported via publicly available and independently reviewed stand-alone HCSA or HCV-HCSA assessments.
4. Research & Innovation
The HCSA’s methodology is based on the best available science and was field-tested to ensure it was practical. HCSA continues to work with research institutes to trial innovations for large-scale mapping of HCS forests and HCV areas.
[iv] HCSA has been invited to join the UpLink Innovation Network of the World Economic Forum and will be recognized as a Top Innovator. The Top Innovator Programme seeks to:
• Maximize the visibility of your venture by providing public exposure via the World Economic Forum and UpLink digital media channels.  
• Offer global exposure and access to select World Economic Forum and partner events.
• Offer facilitated introductions to World Economic Forum and UpLink networks of partners, experts, and investors.  
• Give one year access to the World Economic Forum’s digital collaboration and knowledge platform, TopLink.

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Gestor de Desenvolvimento

Natalia Merchan

Natalia Merchan juntou-se à HCSA como consultora de Desenvolvimento de Negócios em 2020. Ela é responsável pela angariação de fundos em geral e pela construção de relações com novos doadores. Natalia tem mais de 10 anos de experiência na angariação de fundos com fundações, grandes doadores, doadores institucionais e empresariais. Antes de se juntar à HCSA, trabalhou com a Greenpeace como consultora para a angariação de fundos para a campanha florestal. Possui um Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Ambiental da Universidade de Amesterdão.

Designer Digital & Oficial de Comunicação

Kirsti Drain

Kirsti juntou-se em 2022 e é responsável pela produção de conteúdos digitais visuais para o novo website da HCSA, activos digitais para todos os canais de comunicação, bem como design para relatórios e licitações empresariais. Tem mais de 20 anos de experiência em design e conteúdo em canais web, digitais e impressos numa vasta gama de sectores. Trabalhou anteriormente como designer gráfica sénior para o Capital City College Group em Londres e designer digital e editora de conteúdos para a Commonwealth. É licenciada em Cinema e Artes Fotográficas pela Universidade de Westminster.

Outreach Executive

Saffira Mohamed

Saffira Mohamed aderiu à Abordagem de Estoque de Alto Carbono em 2022 como oficial de filiação. Ela apoia o Membership Outreach Manager e o Membership Committee. Saffira tem experiência em levantamento de avifauna e licenciou-se em Silvicultura pela Universidade de Putra, Malásia, com foco na Gestão Florestal.

Gestor de comunicações

Leslie Jewell

Leslie is responsible for producing and managing HCSA’s internal and external communications. Her background is journalism, starting as a reporter and then current affairs producer with BBC World Service Radio and BBC Radio 4. She moved into international TV news, working in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia as Bureau Producer in Moscow for BBC News and covered New York and Washington as North American Bureau Producer for Reuters. She studied politics at Cardiff University and speaks French, Italian and Russian.

Chefe de Desenvolvimento

Jesús Cordero

Jesús Cordero is our Head of Development. He leads on the development and deployment of our Membership Strategy, coordinates the Membership Committee, and supports the development of our Information Management, Communications, Fundraising and HR functions. Jesús has extensive experience with membership and communications management and innovations as well as promoting smallholders’ livelihoods in the tropics via sustainable land use management approaches. Jesús speaks English and Spanish, and he holds a degree in Forestry, an MSc. in Agroforestry (Cranfield University), an MSc. in Communications for Innovation and Development (University of Reading) and an M.A. in Translation Studies (University of Portsmouth).

Landscape and monitoring manager

Jonathan Byers

Jonathan Byers é responsável pela gestão da plataforma de monitorização HCSA Global Forest Watch Pro. Jonathan tem uma formação diversificada em investigação de ciências naturais e físicas, cartografia e SIG, gestão sem fins lucrativos, educação, e narração digital de histórias. Mais recentemente, liderou um projecto financiado pela National Geographic para estudar o habitat e o comportamento do ameaçado canguru de árvores Matschies na Papua Nova Guiné para apoiar os esforços de conservação da comunidade. Anteriormente, trabalhou em projectos de cartografia para Panthera a fim de fornecer mapas de alta resolução para os esforços anti-população de tigres na Malásia, e para a retirada dos glaciares do National Park Service na Califórnia e no Alasca. Jonathan tem um MSc. Licenciatura em Geografia pela Universidade de Montana.

Funcionário administrativo

Anis Farhana Wahab

Anis Farhana Wahab é a oficial administrativa da Abordagem da Estoque de Alto Carbono. Ela apoia o Director Executivo da HCSA, o Comité Executivo da HCSA e os grupos de trabalho sobre a governação da HCSA e os fluxos de trabalho prioritários. É licenciada em Biologia com Menor em Psicologia pela Universidade de Carleton.

Quality manager

Daneetha Muniandy

Daneetha Muniandy aderiu à abordagem HCS em 2020 como responsável pela garantia da qualidade. É responsável pelo apoio à Unidade de Mecanismo de Avaliação de Grievance do HCSA, aplicações de ensaio do HCSA e outros trabalhos de garantia da qualidade do HCSA. Daneetha tem experiência em conservação florestal e possui ambos, um diploma e uma licenciatura em Silvicultura da Universidade de Putra, Malásia (UPM).

Gestor Financeiro

Lee Kuan Lih

Lee Kuan Lih juntou-se ao HCSA como Gestor Financeiro em 2020. É responsável pela contabilidade, orçamentos e controlo do fluxo de caixa da empresa. Antes de entrar para a HCSA, foi gestor financeiro em Helikonia. Foi também responsável por assuntos financeiros na Apple Crumby & Fish, uma plataforma inicial de comércio electrónico para produtos essenciais para bebés e tinha anteriormente trabalhado como auditor. Kuan Lih tem um Bacharelato em Negócios e Comércio (licenciatura em contabilidade e finanças) da Universidade de Monash, Malásia. É também um contabilista de prática certificada como membro do CPA, Austrália.

DIRECTOR EXECUTIVO

Adrian Choo

Adrian Choo é o Director Executivo da Abordagem da Estoque de Alto Carbono. Ele lidera o desenvolvimento e implementação do plano estratégico de negócios da HCSA, supervisiona os membros e o Secretariado da HCSA e promove parcerias para impulsionar o impacto e crescimento da HCSA. Adrian tem uma vasta experiência na certificação de florestas tropicais, sustentabilidade do óleo de palma e áreas de alto valor de conservação. Liderou a Estratégia do Programa de Mercados Sustentáveis na WWF-Malásia e foi Presidente do FSC Malásia durante vários anos. Adrian é licenciado em Silvicultura e doutorado em Tecnologia Biocomposta pela Universititi Putra Malásia, onde foi também Bolsista de Investigação Pós-Doutoramento.