The Yale Forest Forum is the events and outreach hub of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment. YFF serves as a forum for engagement, learning, and collaboration on the most pressing topics and challenges related to forests and forest landscapes today. YFF hosts the longest continuously running guest lecture series at the Yale School of the Environment, the YFF Speaker Series, now offered online and free to the public. Speakers come from a wide range of organizations and perspectives, including government, Indigenous peoples and local communities, NGOs and businesses, working at scales from the local to international. Learnings from the YFF series are published in the YFF Review.
YFF SPRING 2023 SPEAKER SERIES:
We are happy to announce our spring YFF speaker series, offered weekly January-April 2023:
Smallholder Planted Forests and Trees for Climate, Restored Landscapes, and Livelihoods
Tuesdays from January 17 - April 25 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm US ET.
Note: there will be no webinar on March 14 and March 21.
Full details on the series including the speaker scedule and recordings of past talks can be found here.
Click here to register. Register once for all lectures.
Join us for the Yale Forest Forum Spring 2023 Speaker Series Webinar entitled “Smallholder planted trees and forests for climate, restored landscapes, and human livelihoods” held on Tuesdays from January 17-April 25th. This webinar series will focus on ways to harness the potential of smallholder planted forests and trees to contribute to the provision of environmental services, including addressing climate change, and livelihoods. In featuring guest lectures from a range of perspectives, disciplines, and geographies the webinar series will explore topics including the key success factors in the establishment and management of planted forests and trees outside forests by smallholders; the most promising models and practices; the management objectives pursued by smallholders; operational risks, financial risks, and vulnerabilities smallholders face; opportunities and business models linked to the transition to carbon-neutral economies and ecosystem restoration; and what can be done by other actors to support smallholders.
The YFF Speaker Series is hosted by The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
How Can the Voluntary Carbon Market Make a Meaningful Contribution to Protecting Tropical Forests?
Thursdays from January 19 - April 27 from 11:30 am - 12:10 pm US ET.
Note: there will be no webinar on March 16 and March 23.
Full details on the series including the speaker scedule and recordings of past talks can be found here.
Click here to register. Register once for all webinars.
Photo: Daniel Murdiyarso/CIFOR.
The Yale Forest Forum is offering a Spring 2023 Speaker Series Webinar entitled “How can the voluntary carbon market make a meaningful contribution to protecting tropical forests?” on Thursdays from January 19-April 27th from 11:30am-12:10pm ET. The series will feature a wide range of experts from perspectives including tropical country governments, Indigenous peoples, buyers, standard setters, project developers. In focusing on the issues facing tropical forest carbon crediting, the series seeks to explore the following questions: Why are tropical forest carbon credits different? Why is a distinction made between “project” and “jurisdictional” credits? How do the different parties see risks and opportunities? How does the experience in the voluntary carbon market relate to international or domestic compliance markets?
The YFF Speaker Series are hosted by The Forest School at Yale School of the Environment. The series is free and open to the public. The series builds on the Fall 2022 YFF Speaker Series on “What makes a high quality forest carbon credit?” You can catch up on recorded lectures from the Fall Series here.
PAST YFF SPEAKER SERIES
Session details including recordings and speaker information can be found at the links below.
(Re)Considering Planted Forests for the 21st Century
What Makes a High-Quality Forest Carbon Credit?
Theory to Practice of Urban Forest Management
The Future of Forest Products in a Changing Climate: Bioenergy from Forests
UPCOMING EVENT
“Russia’s War and Ukraine’s Forests: Destruction and Resilience”
The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment welcomes researchers Brian Milakovsky ’09 MF and Sergiy Zibtsev, visiting Fulbright Scholar at YSE from 2004-2005, for their virtual talk “Russia’s War and Ukraine’s Forests: Destruction and Resilience” on Monday, April 10 at 12pm EDT U.S. This Yale community and public facing webinar will explore how the current war is affecting Ukraine’s forests, specifically how Russia’s artillery war has been affecting the radiation-contaminated Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and the Siversky Donets River ecosystem of Eastern Ukraine over the past year. The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is a landscape of forests, wetlands, and depopulated communities contaminated by radiation after the nuclear power plant disaster of 1986. The Siversky Donets River is the longest river in eastern Ukraine and a longtime strategic line of transportation, water supply, and defense against Russian invasion. Click for more information and to register.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Valery Melnikov.
YFF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AUTHOR DISCUSSION SERIES WITH ORION:
A Tree’s View of History: A Conversation with Lacy M. Johnson
To learn more about the event, please click here.
For a recording of the event, please click here.
Celebrating Old Growth Series
In partnership with Orion Magazine and the Yale Forum for Religion and Ecology, YFF hosted a three-part author discussion series to celebrate the release of Orion’s anthology, “Old Growth.” You can watch the event recordings and learn more information at the following links:
Celebrating Old Growth: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robert Macfarlane, and David Haskell
To learn more about this event, please click here.
For a recording of the event, please click here.
On Trees: A Conversation with Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy
To learn more about this event, please click here.
For a recording of the event, please click here.
The Language of Trees: A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore
To learn more about the event, please click here.
For a recording of the event, please click here.
