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Fig. 8: Forestry Services of
Jaakko Pöyry Consulting.
Fibre Strategies
● Corporate fibre strategies
● Resource-based expansion opportunities
● Fibre supply optimisation
● Wood market studies and marketing
strategies
● Wood price and cost analysis
● Environmental assessments and audits
● Bioenergy strategies
sidered conservative concerning the
speed of conversion to plantation wood.
The use of MTH in pulp production may
decrease also faster depending on current/future
planting rates in industrial
plantations and economic availability of
MTH pulpwood.
Tropical deforestation is driven by other
factors than pulpwood plantations. Recent
data concerning changes in the
global forest area indicate that the forest
area has remained unchanged or increased
in non-tropical regions. The net
loss of tropical forest area during the
past decade (1990-2000) amounted to
about 14.2 million ha annually, consisting
of a total annual loss of 15.2 million ha,
including 1.0 million hectares converted
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Strategic Management Consulting Services
● Business strategies and plans for forest-based businesses
● Valuation, information memoranda and due diligence studies
● Investor search, merger, acquisition and divestment services
● Business restructuring and re-organisation services
Forest Management
● Sustainable forest management strategies
and plans
● Forest inventory and GIS-based management
planning
● Forest plantation development strategies
and plans
● Seedling production and tree improvement
strategies
● Carbon sequestration strategies
Project Preparation and Implementation Services
● Project identification/specialist opinion studies
● Prefeasibility/feasibility studies
● Project management and implementation support services
● Project monitoring and evaluation services
annually into forest plantations. According
to the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations, most of the
deforestation across the tropics was due
to the direct conversion of forest into
permanent agricultural land or pastures,
and to a lesser degree to the gradual
intensification of shifting agriculture.
Assuming that the average MTH pulpwood
volume in degraded tropical forest
is 50-80 m3 /ha, the area needed annually
to satisfy the annual MTH pulpwood requirement
is some 160,000-260,000 ha.
This means that the conversion of degraded
natural forests into plantations
would equal only about 1-2 % of the total
tropical deforestation. Yet, it is important
to note that this conversion is not regard-
Wood Supply Chain
● Wood supply and procurement strategies
● Harvesting logistics systems analysis and
development
● Operations/efficiency improvement analysis
and monitoring
● Reduced impact harvesting systems
development
● Chain-of-custody systems development
ed as deforestation, but as a change of
the type of forest.
Jaakko Pöyry Consulting
Services
Service offering of Jaakko Pöyry includes
independent evaluation/assessment of
sustainability of forestry practices of forest
industries (including pulp producers)
as well as other entities managing forest
resources. These analyses aim at comprehensive
view on sustainability of management
of forest resources including
conservation and biodiversity, sustainability
of wood production, health and
vitality of forests, soil and water quality,
global carbon cycles, socio-economic
benefits and cultural heritage (Fig. 8).