Sustainability Snapshots: Forests, Metals and Renewables

10 October 2023

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We highlight VanEck’s diverse initiatives and insights about sectors that will play an important role in the energy transition.

Follow along as we consider climate across a variety of sectors. This includes forests sequestering carbon emissions, the critical metals and minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries, and boots-on-the-ground experience visiting offshore wind farms and battery manufacturing plants.

Going Beyond the Trees at the van Eck Forests

Fred van Eck speaks at a podium, People listen to a speaker, A man photographs a forest

The history and unique forestry management of the van Eck Forests in Northern California and Oregon is showcased in the documentary “Beyond the Trees”. For decades, the forests have been managed using an innovative model at a cross-section of conservation, climate, and commerce.

In addition to reducing carbon by the equivalent of removing over 400,000 cars from the road, these forests continue to produce revenue and to help fund forest research.

The fight to restore our native forests began long ago when Fred van Eck, an investment manager passionate about forests, met Laurie Wayburn, a pioneer in forestry restoration. Today, the forests operate as living laboratories to test out innovations in forest management, showing how forests can generate economic returns while also providing climate change resilience.

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