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15 October 2007

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?


Programme

> Morning Session (Presentations and Discussion)

> IPCC side event

> Afternoon Session (Presentation and Panel Discussion)

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Topic Speaker
Time
      Registration and Coffee 9:30 - 10:00
      Opening Chairman's welcome Johann Dengg,
Timber Division, German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
10:00 - 10:15
UNECE welcome Virginia Cram-Martos,
Director, UNECE Trade and Timber Division
FAO welcome Wulf Killmann,
Director, FAO Forest Products and Industries Division
Wood energy policies and recent developments in the OECD (pdf ) Jack Saddler
Dean, University of British Columbia, Canada
10:40 - 10:55
Wood energy in Russia - Policies and interaction with the forest sector (pdf ) S.E. Gryaznov
Director, St. Petersburg Forest Research Institute
10:40 - 10:55
EU policy developments and the forest-based sector (pdf ) Jeremy Wall,
DG Industries and Enterprise, European Commission
10:55 - 11:10
      Discussion 11:10 - 11:40
Wood resources availability and demands - Implications of renewable energy policies (pdf )

Udo Mantau
Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany

Kit Prins
Chief, UNECE/FAO Timber Section

11:40 - 12:00
Mobilization of wood resources (pdf ) Gero Becker
Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany
12:00 - 12:20
      Discussion 12:20 - 13:00
 
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00
 
Special event by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 14:00 - 15:00
Moderator: Renate Christ, Secretary of the IPCC
The role of forest and bioenergy in climate change mitigation (pdf ) Bernhard Schlamadinger,
Joanneum Research, Insitute of Energy Research
Adaptation of forests to climate change (pdf ) Andreas Fischlin
Terrestrial Systems Ecology
Institute of Integrative Biology: Ecology, Evolution, Infectious Disease
Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich
 
Bio-energy and the European pulp and paper industry � an impact assessment (pdf ) Bernard de Galembert
Forest Director, CEPI
15:00 - 15:20
Wood supply for energy use in France (pdf ) Patrick Vallet
Heterogeneous Forests Team, Forest Ecosystems Research Unit,
Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research - Cemagref
15:20 - 15:35
      Discussion 15.35 - 15:55
 
Panel discussion:
What is the future contribution of wood to meeting UNECE region's energy needs?
Moderator: Richard P. Vlosky,
Director, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
16:00 - 17:30
The role of bioenergy for energy objectives (pdf ) Bj�rn Telenius
Swedish Energy Agency
The forest products industry role in meeting energy-related challenges (pdf ) Jerry Schwartz
Executive Director Policy Analysis & Research Group
American Forest & Paper Association
Contribution of Agriculture to biomass supply (pdf ) Dietrich Klein
Chairman of EU Commission's Advisory Group on Energy Crops,
COPA - COGECA
Certification of biomass & environmental impacts (pdf ) Ishmael Dodoo
ProForest
Bioenergy � a future with European family forestry (pdf ) Christer Segerstéen
Vice President, CEPF
 
Chairman's summary (pdf ) Johann Dengg 17:40 - 18:00
Closing remarks

 

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