Investing in a sustainable future.
For 22 years, World Forestry Center has convened investors, land managers, advisors, carbon project developers, and others in the forestland investment space for a 2.5 day conference in Portland, Oregon. Who Will Own the Forest?, now named CANOPY: Forests + Markets + Society, is the premier annual event on institutional forestland investing.
A DIVERSIFYING INVESTOR LANDSCAPE
Growing awareness of climate change is generating a new wave of interest in forests beyond the traditional focus on timber assets. While timber remains a fundamental driver in many forest portfolios, some investors are entering this asset class to meet net zero, climate resiliency, conservation, or biodiversity goals.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
We invite you to join us in this continuing—always exciting and evolving—conversation on institutional investing in forests.
Participants include forestland owners, climate and timber asset managers, institutional investors, forestry executives, wood manufacturers, sustainable biofuels producers, conservation groups, legal advisors, technology companies, and others interested in impact investing and nature-based solutions to pressing environmental challenges.
Our new name
2024 Sponsors:
Title Sponsors:
- Farm Credit System
- Timberland Investment Resources
Classic Sponsors:
- Arotahi Agribusiness
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Finite Carbon
- Forest Economic Advisors
- Global Forest Partners
- Industry Intelligence
- LandVest
- Moss Adams
- Prentiss & Carlisle
- Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
- BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
- TimberMart-South
- University of Georgia Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business
2024 Organizing Committee:
- MaryKate Bullen, Forest Investment Associates
- Carter Coe, Chinook Forest Partners
- Sam Cook, North Carolina State University, College of Natural Resources
- Karim Khalifa, Designbox
- Bob Saul, Shearwell
- Joe Taggart, LandVest
- Marshall Thomas, F&W Forestry
- Mark Wishnie, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
Questions? Email World Forestry Center’s Director of Professional Programs, Sara Wu, at swu@worldforestry.org.