ForestBased Solutions role is to help businesses navigate sustainability issues, engage stakeholders as well as proactively understand risks and new market opportunities. We design systematic strategies to prioritize these issues, implement policy and realize its relationship to economic success. We align these business and organizational values to a commitment to communities served and the health of our planet.
ForestBased Solutions is confident that increasing capacity, commitment and continuity for environmental – social – governance programming will produce positive global impacts one step and one business at a time.
About the Director:
For over 25 years Robert Garner has pioneered sustainability
programs with international organizations and businesses as a
professional musician and technical specialist on international development and market
based conservation programs. Conservation of species specific high end forest products are his specialty. He has worked in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe and the United States and lived in China for three years tracking forest product trends.
Robert has held positions with a variety of international organizations such as US Director of Fauna & Flora International, Director of SoundWood, Speakers Bureau Child Soldiers - UNICEF, and Public Relations for the Office of Technology Assessment - US Congress. He
has provided consulting services across sectors. Clients have included the
music products industry, the timber and forest products industries, seafood sector, philanthropic sector as well as environmental and social
NGOs. Robert holds a Masters in History and International Relations from the London
School of Economics.
