Solution Labs – a new way to tackle FSC’s biggest issues
M9 “Review and Change the Motion Process” was approved in the Bali GA, 2022. The Advisory Group created a proposal for change that acknowledges the need to refocus FSC membership energy on major strategic and aspirational topics, ensuring FSC fulfils its global mission.
After researching trends in motions from previous GAs, the Advisory Group put forward Solution Laboratories as a new model for managing members' desire for change, progress, innovation, and solutions, whilst empowering chambers and reducing the number of motions at each GA.
Statutory Motion M09/2025 will set up Solutions Labs as a formal part of FSC’s governance and decision-making process. The primary goal is to deliver impactful results through a more collaborative and effective decision-making framework, open to all members.
Join us at this side event to find out more on how this new approach empowers progress on the most important issues for members of FSC.
Florencia Garza
Florencia Garza is an expert in social innovation, ecosystem leadership, and regenerative cultures. Through her consulting firm, she works with nature-based social innovation, designing and facilitating participatory methodologies and programs for effective stakeholder engagement, translating theory into practice across territories and ecosystems. An international member of the FSC social chamber and founder of the Tutores de Resiliencia Social Innovation Lab, she drives solutions integrating well-being, community resilience, and socio-environmental regeneration, flourishing through diversity, interdependence, and collective intelligence.
Julia Young
Julia Young has extensive experience in natural resources management, including exploration geology and mining, and moved into international environmental law and policy with a particular focus on governance and voluntary stewardship of the environment. She led work on global forest management and trade (GFTN) in the UK with WWF from 2007, including forest certification, with diverse businesses, civil society, and government actors, before leading global forest sector strategy and engagement on for the WWF network until mid-2022. She is currently Director of Policy and Standards at the HCV Network. Julia has lived and worked long term in southern Africa, the UK, and now Sweden.
Mike Bekin
Mike Bekin was the proposer of the original M9/2022, and together with Julia and Florencia, has put forward this new M9/2025. Born in Brazil, he is on the board of FSC UK and is passionate about how FSC can make a significant contribution to the climate and biodiversity crises.
Event Details
- Date: Monday, 27 October
- Time: 08:30 - 10:00 (EST - Panama) / 14:30 - 16:00 (CET) / 21:30 - 23:00 (WITA)