EFI Director
Marc Palahí is a leading expert on forests and global change, with a new vision of the transformational role forests can play in fighting climate change and developing a circular bioeconomy.
He has been Director of the European Forest Institute since 2015, driving its development as a pan-European science-policy platform, and working to connect knowledge to action at the interface of science, policy and business. Marc has a PhD in forestry and economics and his work, which has featured in Nature and other high-level scientific journals, focuses on the development of a sustainable circular bioeconomy that prospers in harmony with nature. Marc leads the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance established by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales under his Sustainable Markets Initiative.
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| EU forest strategy: adapt, innovate, employ | May 2021 | |
| A New Deal for European forests | April 2021 | |
| Why the world needs a 'circular bioeconomy' - for jobs, biodiversity and prosperity (World Economic Forum Agenda) | October 2020 | |
| On pandemics and forest fires | June 2020 | |
| Seeing the wood in the forests | April 2020 | |
| Bioeconomy: the missing link to connect the dots in the EU Green Deal | March 2020 | |
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Director's letters to the EFI network |
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| 2022 | March | |
| 2021 | February, March, May, July, December | |
| 2020 | December, November, September, August, March, February | |
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Podcast |
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| 2019 | Is bieconomy the answer to a sustainable and fair future? | |
| Coaching Talks podcast, hosted by Marc Siles. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, iVoox | ||
| Speeches and popular articles | ||
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| Glasgow forest declaration needs new modes of data ownership | Nature Climate Change | April 2022 |
| Speech to Forest Europe Ministerial Conference | April 2021 | |
| De pandemias e indencios forestales | Opinion piece in El Pais | June 2020 |
| The bioeconomy – bringing life to the center of our economy | Opinion piece in Revolve Media | March 2020 |
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Photo: Johanna Kokkola, Salama Visual