Professional Services

Certification

Veon works with forest owners to offer certification of forest properties to PEFC (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification) standards. PEFC audits forest management practices against their standard to ensure forest management adheres to current best practice and to sustainable forest management practices. Aside from the environmental benefits of sustainable management, certification through PEFC is likely to increase the marketability of harvested timber, strengthen timber prices, enable forest owners to market their timber using the PEFC logo, and allows certified forest owners to demonstrate their compliance with such legislative requirements as the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) and helping remove the threat of illegal timber entering the market.

Management Plans

Having a comprehensive and up to date Forest Management Plan in place is of utmost importance in order to ensure your investment Is protected, that you are complying with current legal requirements and that operations are planned in order to maximise income while minimising costs. Veon offers a tried and tested management planning service which is scalable to any forest size and can incorporate all management requirements which are of importance to a forest owner whether environmental or economic. Management Planning for your property is carried out using years of on-the-ground experience alongside cutting edge technology. A comprehensive Management Plan of a forest can include an initial mapping and inventory of the forest through to operational scheduling, cashflow analysis and timber production forecasting for the forest.

Carbon Measurement & CO₂ Mitigation through Forestry

Professionally managed forests provide an optimal and cost-effective solution for climate change mitigation. Veon works with their clients to initially quantify and report on the existing stock of carbon held in their client’s forest portfolio and then provides specialist silvicultural advice to implement advanced forest management techniques to maximise carbon sequestration within the forest portfolio.

Forests reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide through natural biological growth and store carbon in forest biomass and forest soil. Indeed, the products of forests continue to store carbon for long periods while the forest they came from regenerates storing yet more carbon. However, due to the overall heterogeneous and dynamic nature of forest ecosystems and end product utilisation, estimation and forecasting of these processes is complex.

Veon utilises the most dynamic software currently available in forest management to help corporates, and forest owners achieve their environmental objectives and achieve more sustainable policy, plan and project outcomes.

Models and assumptions are based on the most up to date data and research, and we strive for continuous improvement of our carbon calculations in close collaboration with our clients and partners.

Veon will report and measure the amount of carbon stored in a client’s existing forest portfolio or in researching a proposed forest portfolio for acquisition purposes based on potential carbon offset.

Veon’s Carbon and CO₂ Mitigation report will examine the standing stock at the beginning of a pre-agreed time frame and analyse and report on the biological growth during the period. The report will include carbon impact from new planting on the portfolio and wood sales during the period.

Following the delivery of Veon’s Carbon and CO₂ Mitigation report, Veon will engage with the client to assess options and propose a Carbon Forest Management Plan to explore strategic solutions to help maximise carbon sequestration and storage within the forest portfolio.

Carbon mitigation strategies are developed to provide real reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by reducing, absorbing or avoiding the release of carbon dioxide to make real climate impact. Periodical forest carbon updates for institutional forest owners provide increasingly important messaging to engage stakeholders and shareholders.

Our bespoke solutions and climate smart forest management planning and decision making is now available to all forest owners and corporates seeking forest carbon emission reporting and mitigation solutions.

Tree Surveys

Veon works with many large land owners, both private and public, where the management of their trees as individuals and/or in forests is of the upmost importance, both in relation to health and safety but also in relation to the management of their natural resource and the surrounding vegetation. Veon work with clients to produce tree surveys indicating the health of the tree/forest and if any work is required. Veon use state of the art technology in completing tree surveys using GPS’s so each individual tree is recorded as required or using drones giving full 3D models and imagery of the area surveyed.

Stakeholder Consultation Notice

Veon’s Certification Scheme

Veon’s certification scheme offers our clients the opportunity to achieve internationally recognised Forest Management Standards under the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). The scheme offers benefits such as market access, increased biodiversity, a framework to reduce operational impacts on the environment and independent verification of management standards.
Veon Limited is preparing woodlands to be independently evaluated by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). We wish to notify interested parties that we are currently carrying out stakeholder consultation for the following woodlands from the 15th October 2020 to 14th November 2020.