15 October 2007

Joint UNECE Timber Committee and FAO European Forestry Commission Policy Forum

Opportunities and Impacts of Bioenergy Policies and Targets
on the Forest and Other Sectors

What is the future contribution of wood to meeting UNECE region's energy needs?

Documents:

> Background & meeting documents

> Presentations

> IPCC side event

Background & meeting documents  

Title	Author	Download
Background paper: Wood resources availability and demands - implications of renewable energy policies	Mantau, Prins, Steierer, Hetsch	[882 kb]
Press release	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[web link]
Chairman's summary	Johann Dengg	[22 kb]
Provisional Lists of Participants, as of 1 October 2007		[116 kb]
Programme	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[34 kb]
Provisional Agenda (English) official UNECE Timber Committee document	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[47 kb]
l’ordre du jour provisoire (French) official UNECE Timber Committee document	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[103 kb]
предварительной повестки дня (Russian) official UNECE Timber Committee document	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[120 kb]
Information note	UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[36 kb]

Presentations (download all presentations as zip-file [8.3 MB])

Title	Author	Organisation	Download
Wood energy policies and recent developments in the OECD	Jack Saddler	University of British Columbia	[5.9 Mb]
Wood energy in Russia - Policies and interaction with the forest sector	S.E. Gryaznov	St. Petersburg Forest Research Institute	[315 kb]
EU policy developments and the forest-based sector	Jeremy Wall	DG Industry and Enterprise, European Commission	[254 kb]
Wood resources availability and demands - Implications of renewable energy policies	Udo Mantau Kit Prins	University of Hamburg UNECE/FAO Timber Section	[259 kb]
Mobilization of wood resources	Gero Becker	University of Freiburg	[2.7 Mb]
Bio-energy and the European pulp and paper industry – an impact assessment	Bernard de Galembert	Confederation of European Paper Industries - CEPI	[1.8 Mb]
Wood supply for energy use in France	Patrick Vallet	Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research - Cemagref	[236 kb]
Contribution of agriculture to biomass supply	Dietrich Klein	COPA - COGECA	[1.0 Mb]
The role of bioenergy for energy objectives	Björn Telenius	Swedish Energy Agency	[44 kb]
The forest products industry role in meeting energy-related challenges	Jerry Schwartz	American Forest & Paper Association	[212 kb]
Certification of biomass & environmental impacts	Ishmael Dodoo	ProForest	[41 kb]
Bioenergy – a future with European family forestry	Christer Segerstéen	Confederation of European Forest Owners - CEPF	[83 kb]
all presentations (zip-file)	all		[8.3 Mb]

IPCC side event  

Title	Author	Organisation	Download
The role of forests and bioenergy in climate-change mitigation	Bernhard Schlamadinger	Joanneum Research	[1.4 Mb]
Adaptation of forests to climate change	Andreas Fischlin	ETH Zurich	[8.3 Mb]

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