Forests for All Forever: Circular Visions for FSC
As FSC members increasingly engage in circular business models, FSC is adapting to remain a relevant and attractive tool — supporting our members in their efforts to stay within planetary boundaries.
Join FSC’s Circularity Hub for an interactive workshop exploring potential FSC-solutions for the circular economy. The demand for forest-based products is increasing across industries as diverse as packaging, construction, textiles, and even the car industry. This intensifies pressure on forests. Some projections foresee a quadrupling in demand for forest-based fibers by 2050—a trajectory far beyond what forest ecosystems can supply while remaining healthy, resilient systems capable of helping us mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Designed for all knowledge levels, this hands-on session invites members to discuss and improve draft solutions that could integrate circular business models in FSC's CoC standards, enable the use of other natural fiber types of responsible origin under FSC, ensure financial incentives for forest owners to maintain healthy ecosystems, and enable cascading fiber use.
Subhra Bhattacharjee
Subhra Bhattacharjee is Director General of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). She brings 23+ years of experience in climate, sustainable development and poverty reduction across central banking, academia and the United Nations, with postings in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Germany, the occupied Palestinian territory, the United States and India. Subhra has led government-UN development frameworks, built cross-sector coalitions for climate action, and helped deliver first-ever climate-finance estimates and nationally determined contributions in challenging contexts. She holds an MPhil in International Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and a PhD in Environmental & Macro-Economics (Iowa State University). At FSC, she focuses on strategy, policy and partnerships to strengthen credible forest solutions for markets and communities.
Fernando Martinez, Brambles
Fernando Martinez-Arribas is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Procurement at Brambles, a company recognized globally for pioneering circular economy solutions and supporting some of the world’s most sustainable supply chains. Under his leadership, procurement has become a driver of Brambles’ sustainability and regenerative ambitions, particularly through its Forestry and Timber Certification programs. With a background in the renewable energy industry across three continents, Fernando is passionate about leveraging corporate investment to regenerate ecosystems and decarbonize global supply chains.
Loa Dalgaard Worm, FSC Denmark
Loa bridges environmental ambition and economic reality to help humanity thrive within planetary boundaries. With 20 years of FSC experience, she knows how certification works in everyday business. She now leads the FSC Circularity Hub, developing solutions for 65,000+ certified companies worldwide. Formerly Director of FSC Denmark, where she led a vast expansion of both membership and FSC awareness. Today, she works to accelerate circular, regenerative business models and systemic transformation.
Sebastian Mandiola, Celulosa Arauco
Sebastián Mandiola represents Arauco a Chilean company that is member of FSC Chile and FSC International. Currently responsible for the research and development area of Arauco, called Bioforest. Industrial Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a MBA from Emory University, Goizueta Business School in Atlanta and a Latu Sensu in pulp and paper technology from Universidad Federal de Viçosa. He has worked in different areas in Arauco, including Commercial, Supply Chain, Procurement, Reliability, Projects and Engineering, and lately R&D.
Henriette Thorsén Clausen, FSC
Henriette Thorsén Clausen works in FSC’s innovation unit, the FSC Circularity Hub, where she serves as Process Lead. She coordinates and facilitates the FSC Circularity Session and subsequent workshop, focusing on advancing circular solutions within the FSC system. With a background in sustainability strategy and systems thinking, Henriette works to connect people and ideas that help strengthen forest stewardship and promote more circular and regenerative practices.
Event Details
- Wednesday, 29 October
Time: 08:30 - 10:00 (EST - Panama) / 14:30 - 16:00 (CET) / 21:30 - 23:00 (WITA)