FSC necesita a los jóvenes: Educación, Investigación y expectativas
FSC está evolucionando y queremos tener un impacto en las generaciones más jóvenes y cocrear soluciones para afrontar la crisis a la que se enfrenta su futuro. Queremos entender qué saben los jóvenes sobre FSC, y qué puede aportar FSC para motivarlos a interactuar con FSC como miembros, en grupos de trabajo, como investigadores, como auditores, como futuros responsables de la toma de decisiones. Daremos la palabra a los panelistas y a la audiencia para cuestionar a FSC sobre por qué deberían comprometerse con FSC, con el fin de ayudar a FSC a entender lo que necesitamos ofrecer.
En esta sesión interactiva, la Asociación Internacional de Estudiantes de Silvicultura presentará, en primer lugar, los resultados de su encuesta mundial para determinar cuándo, dónde y con qué detalle conocieron y estudiaron FSC y la certificación en general. La IFSA implicará al público para que contribuya a estos hallazgos. Juntos queremos identificar en qué casos FSC debe ofrecer apoyo al personal docente para que enseñe sobre la certificación FSC.
Jóvenes científicos de distintas disciplinas debatirán por qué y qué piensan estudiar sobre FSC, cuáles son sus retos a la hora de invertir tiempo en realizar investigaciones relacionadas con FSC, acceder a datos, obtener financiamiento y encontrar homólogos para las entrevistas. Queremos saber desde la perspectiva de los jóvenes indígenas qué esperan de FSC para que les resulte atractivo dedicar su tiempo a FSC. Mostraremos ejemplos del amplio abanico de temas de investigación relacionados con FSC, oportunidades de empleo y otros tipos de participación, y celebraremos el éxito del compromiso de los jóvenes para FSC y para ellos mismos.
Muhammad Pasha Assalafi, IFSA
Muhammad is a climate action advocate serving as the Head of the FSC Sub-Commission at IFSA. A Forest Management student at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), he led a youth-led tree planting initiative in Blora, East Java, resulting in over 7,500 trees planted in 2024. As Head of Commission at IFSA LC UGM, he actively represents youth in global forestry forums and multistakeholder platforms, advancing forest governance and sustainability through youth mobilisation and collaboration.
Jaime Iarin Victoriano Ascencio, IFSA
Jaime is studying Forest Restoration Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. He served as president of the local committee IFSA CHAUPEA and currently represents Latin America in the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA). He stands out for his commitment to ecological restoration, student leadership, and international collaboration, actively participating in environmental initiatives and dialogue spaces to strengthen climate action from the perspective of forestry youth.
Dr. Charline Depoorter
Dr. Charline is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sustainability Research Group at University of Basel (Switzerland) and Research Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium). A political scientist by training, her research interests include transnational sustainability governance, global value chains, political economy, and global environmental politics. She currently investigates (public and private) regulatory instruments for sustainable global value chains, with an empirical focus on the land use sector.
Sarah Anne Stevens
Sarah is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, where she supports a comparative multistakeholder global governance project. Her personal work focuses on political, economic, and ecological changes occurring through the FSC's governance process. Sarah Anne formerly worked at Public Citizen, where she supported trade, human rights, and environmental advocacy. During her graduate studies, she volunteered as a researcher to support frontline communities whose human rights had been violated by development banks.
Laura Birbalaite
I am a PhD Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, the Netherlands. With our research team of four, we are carrying out a comparative, in-depth analysis of capacity, effectiveness and legitimacy of multistakeholder global governance, which the FSC is a part of. In my own individual dissertation on the FSC, I am investigating how and in what ways the principles of care are lived and reflected in its governance. Prior to academe, I was primarily involved in environmental and social grassroots movements and community organising.
Maureen Kamau
Maureen Kamau is a first-year doctoral student at the University of Eastern Finland with a background in forestry and hands-on experience in natural resources management. Her master's thesis analysed climate adaptation strategies in boreal forest management based on FSC standards. Building on this, her PhD studies examine climate resilience in community-managed forests in the Global South and assess the impact of certification on carbon stocks. Maureen advances inclusive, science-informed approaches to forest policy and governance.
Dian Intarini
Dian Intarini, rooted in Javanese culture, is the Indigenous Peoples Manager for Forestry and Certification at FSC-International. She co-founded Indonesia’s Dala Institute and is affiliated with Gadjah Mada University, University of Hohenheim, and University of Twente. Dian has consulted for CIFOR/ICRAF and FSC, conducting research in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. Her expertise includes land tenure, community resource management, certification, Forest governance, food security, and rural development.
Event Details
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Tuesday 28 October
Time: 16:30 - 18:00 EST (Panama), 22:30 - 00:00 CET, 05:30 - 07:00 WITA (next day)