A plenary session entitled "Green Jobs: the future of forest employment” featured discussion of changes, opportunities, and challenges for the forest management market and demonstrated how companies are using new technological tools at the 25th IUFRO World Congress this Wednesday, October 2.

Working with natural resources is fundamental to protecting forests and the climate. It is an opportunity to build networks of relationships and innovation and to set the bioeconomy into motion; this activity is being seen as a strategy to mitigate the effects of climate change on the planet.

"Green jobs are also important for social inclusion and gender equality in rural communities. We need to show rural young people that innovations that can be applied on their properties and increase income with less effort,” commented Lisa Prior, coordinator of the session.
Esthevan Gasparoto, a forest engineer and one of the owners of the startup Treevia Forest Technologies, showed how forests can be connected and monitored through the internet. The company offers the forestry sector disruptive technologies to automate forestry and contributes to the sustainable future of forests. 

After wireless sensors are installed in the forest stands, Gasparoto remotely monitors forest assets throughout the production cycle. The data are sent to a Web platform that uses software to extract as much data as possible.
"Thinking about the future is not easy, but I see the changes in the digital world as a chance for young people to work in the field of forestry," added Gasparoto.