A systemic collaboration to improve Guyana’s timber and non-timber product value chains

Global leaders met in Paris to strengthen city-forest partnerships and build strategies for COP 30 in Belém, Brazil.

Global leaders gathered to discuss the future of building with wood and its potential to drive sustainability and forest restoration.

Explore the city's wooden place-making structures

Accelerating the use of Wood and Biobased Materials in the built environment

Scott led a workshop on the concept of "Systemic Collaboration" with 40+ leaders in the spaces of sustainability, built environment and philanthropy in Klosters, Switzerland.

Carnaval de la Biodiversité was a unique engagement and networking evening for changemakers from COP15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity + The Collective of Quebec civil society for COP15 .

A unique gathering of diverse expertise on the future of forests in Canada
and the role of design, climate science and cultural leadership in supporting them

Scott was invited by ATIBT and FSC Denmark to talk about making long-distance connections between forest communities and European markets through the Partner Forest program

Scott Francisco presents the groundbreaking Sustainable Wood for Cities platform outlining 8 pathways for wood sourcing to benefit climate, biodiversity and livelihoods. Sustainable Wood for a Sustainable World (SW4SW). Sustainable wood in construction: Contributing to green cities and the bioeconomy.

Advancing L’Appel de la Forêt in Hué, Vietnam

The 2024 FLARE Annual Meeting explored how Youth Visioning Workshops empowered young people to shape forest communities.

This relaunch reflects a renewed commitment to deepening engagement with young people in forest communities.

In search of urban innovators!

A gathering of global leaders met in Dubai to co-create a systemic collaboration platform

The Selva Maya Conservation Timber Summit in Playa del Carmen. Co-creating a more resilient value chain.

Better Forests, Better Cities was a groundbreaking report created for city policymakers.

The Swiss Green Economy Symposium is a neutral and non-ideological platform for discussing and exchanging successful solutions and projects that help mastering those complex challenges.

Modeling forest conservation through sustainable procurement

This keynote by Scott Francisco outlined several key strategies to support circularity and sustainability in the new global forest economies. In particular the Cities4Forests' Partner Forest Program.

Mass timber industry leaders met during the IMTC 2025 in Portland, Oregon, for an exclusive report preview and reception event.

Engaging city governments and civic institutions to lead the transition toward sustainable, resilient urban futures.

Support future youth forest leaders in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

A gathering of global innovators on the future of wood as a conservation tool

Dubbed Europe's hippest and most inspiring city-making festival, the Italian Turin-based Utopian Hours travels to Miami for a day of creative urbanism.

Scott presented the Cities4Forests’ Partners Forest Workshop: Connecting tropical forests to cities for culture and systems change.

Scott connected the Brooklyn Bridge Forest and the Partner Forest program to ideas of utopianism at this annual festival about city making.

Participating in the programme of H22, a major initiative by the City of Helsingborg, Sweden, to develop future welfare solutions aimed at improving quality of life in a smarter, more sustainable city.

Pathways towards climate-smart wood procurement. Introduced by former deputy mayor of London Nicky Gavron, Scott Francisco and Cities4Forests are hosting a participatory expert-level exploration of the latest thinking and research on sustainable wood for city projects.

As part of WORKTECH 19 in Toronto, Scott will be addressing the potential of private enterprise in addressing their remote influences on climate change.