Justas Kaveckas

Climate Change Environmental Sustainability

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Justas Kaveckas is co-founder and CEO of Foros. He launched Foros after identifying the opportunity to revolutionise the vast, slow-moving forestry market. He lives with his family in Vilnius.

Justas Kaveckas

Nov 01 2021

Well managed forests are critical in the fight against climate change

Illuminem Voices

Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change

Despite widespread awareness of global climate change and some efforts to combat it, we remain on a potentially catastrophic trajectory. Even the internationally accepted target of keeping the increase in global average temperature below 2°C is out of reach unless we adopt new strategies. In addition to significantly cutting the amount of carbon we emit, scientific consensus calls for negativeCO2 emissions – capturing carbon – as an important part of our strategy.