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Agenda

 31 March 2008    1 April 2008  

2-3 April 2008: FAO/UNECE Joint Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics [link]


27 March 2008

Conference room: Salle XIX

Chairman: Jeremy Wall , European Commission (DG Enterprise)

31 March 2008

Background & research on wood use

Time

Title

Speaker

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome note

Virginia Cram-Martos,
UNECE Trade and Timber Division

09:45 - 09:55

Introduction and background to the work on wood resource availability and supply

Kit Prins
UNECE/FAO Timber Section

09:55 - 10:20

Concept of the National wood resource balance - methodological introduction

Udo Mantau
Hamburg University

10:20 - 10:35

Discussion

10:35 - 10:55

Break

10:55 - 11:35

Presentation of the study on "wood resource availability and supply", new data, lessons learned and identification of data gaps and weaknesses

Florian Steierer
Hamburg University ,
Sebastian Hetsch UNECE/FAO Timber Section

11:35 - 12:05

Discussion

12:05 - 12:35

Empirical research to fill data gaps – about field work, projections and courageous estimates

Udo Mantau &
Holger Weimar,
von Thünen-Institute, Germany

12:35 - 13:00

Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:00

Conversion factors (product input/output, equivalent wood in the rough) – key information to analyse wood balances and wood flows

Alain Thivolle-Cazat,
Institut Technologique FCBA, France

15:00 - 15:30

Discussion

15:30 - 15:50

Break

15:50– 16:10

Empirical research on wood use for energy: experience in Italy

Marina Vitullo &
Stefano Caserini
Italian National Environmental Agency

16.10 – 16:30

Improving data on wood used by the industry in Spain

Cristina Viejo T�llez, Ministry of Environment, Spain &
Juan Picos Mart�n, Monte Industria

16:30 – 16:50

Discussion

16:50 – 17:05

EFORWOOD: a European project on Sustainability Impact Assessement of the forestry-wood chain

Gero Becker ,
University of Freiburg, Germany

17:05 - 17:20

Discussion

17:20 - 17:40

Closing and summary of the first day

17:45

Reception at the UN Palais des Nations 


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Conference room: Salle XIX


1 April

Research on wood supply & future activities

Time

Title

Speaker

09:00 - 09:10

Introduction

Chairman

09:10 - 09:30

Empirical research on post consumer recovered wood in the Netherlands

Nico Leek
Probos, Netherlands

09:30 - 09:50

Measurements of wood supply in Finland – wood removals from the forests

Martti Aarne
Metla, Finland

09:50 - 10:10

Empirical research on wood flows in Poland

Ewa Ratajczak,
Wood Technology Institute, Poznan, Poland

10:10 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:20

Roundwood flow analysis in Slovenia

Nike Krajnc &
Mitja Piškur,
Slovenian Forestry Institute

11:20 - 11:40

Drawing the bigger picture - Wood flow model in Austria

Dietmar Hagauer,
Austrian Energy Agency

11:40 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 12:20

Experiences for estimating current actual wood supply and demand using the WISDOM approach

Miguel Trossero,
FAO

12:20 - 12:35

Discussion

12:35 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 14:20

Efforts on European level to improve information on wood energy and renewable energy statistics Nikolaos Roubanis
Eurostat

14:20 - 14:40

Coordinated empirical research for a European wood resource balance

Udo Mantau
Hamburg University

14:40 - 15:10

Discussion

15:10 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:00

Workshop conclusions

Chairman

16:00 - 16:20

Closing of the workshop

Chairman


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A summary of the workshop and its results will be presented at the Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics.

 

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