Workshop: Mobilizing Wood Rescources

Programme

The workshop was a two-days event.
The first day was Presentations and Discussion:

Introduction and background information on future wood demands and supply, as well as on current policies
Case studies from different countries in the UNECE region, highlighting existing challenges in wood supply and existing approaches to handle this issue
Stakeholders' positions and strategies towards increasing wood mobilisation: Possible approaches and their opportunities and risks.

On the second day, working groups were discussing:

Strategies for wood mobilization,
Influence of policy / measures to promote wood mobilization and
Implication of increased wood mobilization on different sectors.

Each working group will draw conclusions which will be discussed and brought together in a final recommendation for to policy-makers and stakeholders, and serve as input to the Warsaw Ministerial Conference.

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Thursday, 11 January: Presentations and Discussion
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome by Michael Gautschi (Swiss Federal Office for the Environment), Kit Prins (UNECE/FAO), Hikojiro Katsuhisa (FAO), Piotr Borkowski (MCPFE, LUW) and Bernard de Galembert (CEPI)
9:15 - 10:30	Presentations and Discussion: Background Mobilizing wood resources - What's the big deal? Prof. Sten Nilsson, Forestry Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA download presentation: [435 kb] download paper: [2.3 mb] EU policies influencing the use and mobilization of wood, including for energy purpose Joint presentation by European Union: Jeremy Wall (DG Enterprise) and Ignacio Seoane (DG Agri) download presentation: [178 kb]
	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Presentations and Discussion: Case studies Mobilizing Wood Resources in Countries in Transition � Slovenian Example Jurij Begus, Slovenia Forest Service download presentation: [934 kb] Wood Mobilizing in Russia in the light of the new forest code Maria Palenova, Agency of Forestry, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation download presentation: [4.5 mb] Mobilizing Wood Resources in Mediterranean Countries Iñaki Isasi Pérez, Union des Sylviculteurs du Sud de l’Europe, USSE download presentation: [770 kb]
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30	Presentations and Discussion: Strategies Focus on the future - Mobilizing Wood: Industry Viewpoints Elisabet Salander Björklund, Stora Enso Forest Products download presentation: [995 kb] Strategies for Supply of Raw Material in the Energy Industry Michael Deutmeyer, CHOREN Biomass GmbH, Germany download presentation: [800 kb] Wood Supply Chain in S�dra, today and tomorrow Christer Segersteen, Södra Wood Products, Sweden download presentation: [1.7 mb]
	Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00	Presentations and Discussion: Existing approaches and Impacts Increased Wood Mobilization - a Forest Owner's Point of View Stefan Schenker, Confédération Européenne des Propriétaires Forestiers, CEPF download presentation: [35 kb] Regional approach forWood mobilisation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Josef Herkendell, Ministry of the Environment, NRW, Germany download presentation: [1.7 mb] Interaction and Conflicts in Wood Supply and Policy Measures - Experience from Vienna-Simmering and other �Bf supplied CHPs Winfried Süss, Austrian Federal Forest AG download presentation: [2.7 mb] Increased Wood Mobilisation and the Environment � a WWF perspective Karin Wessman, WWF international download presentation: [553 kb]
Reception
Friday, 12 January: Working groups
9:00 - 12:00	Working Group Session: Strategies for wood mobilization moderator: Bo Dahlin, University of Helsinki, Finland room: H3 Policy tools to promote wood mobilization moderator: Wilhelm Vorher, Thosca Holz, Germany room: Salle XI Implication of increased wood mobilisation on different sectors moderator: Duncan Pollard, WWF international room: F3
12:00 - 12:30	Drafting recomendations within each working group
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30	Regional Working Groups: Northern Europe and North America moderator: Heikki Pajuoja, Managing Director, Mets�teho Oy, Finalnd room: H3 Central and Southern Europe moderator: Christian Salvignol, Directeur, Centre Forestier de la r�gion Provence-Alpes-C�te d�Azur, France room: Salle XI Eastern Europe, Balkan, Russia and Central Asia moderator: Piotr Paschalis-Jakubowicz, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland room: F3
14:45 - 15:30	Presentation of the results of the working groups
15:30 - 16:45	Discussion and final recommendations
16:45 - 17:00	Conclusions and closing of the workshop

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