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Seventy-fourth session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry

18 - 20 October 2016

Geneva Switzerland

Adapted from fairventures.org

The 74th session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 18 to 20 October 2016.

The Committee reviewed and guided activities in data collection and analysis, policy support, capacity building and communication. In addition, the meeting had focus on the commercial aspects of the forest based industries (transformation, profits, trends, challenges, etc.). Half a day was dedicated to market discussions of forest-based industries. Additional themes were for this session included review of the results of the work on forest ownership and green jobs in the region.

The Committee was also invited to contribute to the Strategic Review of the Integrated Programme of Work 2014-2017 and provided recommendations for the future programme (2018-2021). Next year the 70th anniversary of UNECE as well as 70 years of successful collaboration between COFFI (former Timber Committee) and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC) will be celebrated.

A UNECE news release has been issued to announce the COFFI session.

The COFFI session was conducted in English, French and Russian.

The session was followed by a workshop “Measuring the value of forests in a green economy” on 21 October 2016. For further information on the workshop, click here.

Please find pictures of the session on the UNEC-FAO flickr account.

A press release was published on Friday 21 October 2016.

Documents

Document Title	ENG	FRE	RUS
Annotated provisional agenda for the seventy-fourth session of COFFI - ECE/TIM/2016/1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of the meeting	PDF	PDF	PDF
The forest sector workforce and future green jobs in the region – preliminary results of the study - ECE/TIM/2016/3	PDF	PDF	PDF
Forest products market discussions, including panel discussion: opportunities for and barriers to forest products from the perspective of the private sector - ECE/TIM/2016/4 2016 Country Market Statements	PDF	PDF	PDF
Trends and perspectives for pulp and paper - ECE/TIM/2016/5	PDF	PDF	PDF
Trends and perspectives for pallets and wooden packaging - ECE/TIM/2016/6	PDF	PDF	PDF
The global and regional policy context - ECE/TIM/2016/7	PDF	PDF	PDF
Review of 2016 activities, and activities planned for 2017 - ECE/TIM/2016/8	PDF	PDF	PDF
The ECE evaluation on the assessment of the relevance of the 2014-2017 Integrated Programme of Work (IPoW) - ECE/TIM/2016/9	PDF	PDF	PDF
Strategic Review of the Integrated Programme of Work - ECE/TIM/2016/10	PDF	PDF	PDF

Information Documents			ENG only
Forest Ownership in the Region - ECE/TIM/2016/Inf.1			PDF
Wood Construction - ECE/TIM/2016/Inf.2			PDF

Referred Documents	ENG	FRE	RUS
Report from the joint seventy-third session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and thirty-eighth session of the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of the thirty-eighth session of the Joint ECE/FAO Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management - ECE/TIM/EFC/WP.2/2016/2	PDF	PDF	PDF

Programme

Please find the programme for the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry, COFFI (18-20 Oct 2016) and the UNECE/FAO Green Economy Workshop (21 Oct 2016) here; Russian version.

Please find a leaflet with more detailed information on the market related sessions of COFFI here.

Registration and Information

To register for the meeting (and the Green Economy workshop on October 21) click here.
Please use your existing on-line account if you have previously attended a UNECE meeting.

Information about previous meetings is available here.

For more information contact the Secretariat at [email protected]

General information for delegates is available here.

Visa requirements: Attention is drawn to the need for some participants to obtain a visa for entry into Switzerland. Participants requiring entry visas must obtain these from the Swiss Consulate or competent Diplomatic Mission in their country before leaving for Switzerland. Participants who need visas are advised to register online for the meeting at their earliest convenience and choose the option for visa support available there.
Information on the requirements for entry in Switzerland can be found at: https://www.sem.admin.ch/dam/data/sem/einreise/merkblatt_einreise/mb-grueezi-e.pdf

Please be advised that visa processing might take a few weeks, so your delegation should make travel arrangements as soon as possible.

Presentations

Item	Title	PDF
2	Forest ownership changes in Europe	pdf
2	Forest ownership in the ECE region - preliminary study results	pdf
2	Social aspects of the forest sector workforce	pdf
2	FOREST EUROPE - planned activities in GREEN JOBS	pdf
2	Promoting Decent Work with Green Jobs in the Forestry Sector - ILO	pdf
2	Green Jobs in the forest(ry) sector	pdf
3a1	European Timber Market Overview	pdf
3a1	CIS Timber Market Overview	pdf
3a1	North American Timber Market Overview	pdf
3a1	Wood pallets and packaging	pdf
3a2	Idaho Forest Group- Perspective of a softwood sawmill company	pdf
3a2	Danzer- Forest Products: Opportunities and barriers	pdf
3a2	ILIM Timber- Opportunities for and barriers to forest products	pdf
3a2	kastamonu- Perspective of a wood based panels company	pdf
3b2	Global trends in the pulp and paper industry- North America, Brazil, China	pdf
3b2	European pulp and paper industries: Navigation towards the future	pdf
3b2	Research and innovation in the Russian pulp and paper industry	pdf
3c	CLT production, consumption, construction in Japan	pdf
3c	Fire safety engeneering in wood construction	pdf
3c	The potential of low carbon products in the built environment	pdf
3c	Building the natural change	pdf
3c	Regulations and structural requirements for seismic resistance	pdf
3c	Perspectives of an architect on wood construction	pdf
4a	The role of forests, their goods and services, and the forest sector in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	pdf
4a	Implementation of the 2030 Agenda- Example from Sweden	pdf
4b	The United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)- the status of the 2017-2030 Strategic Plan	pdf
4c	Forest Europe- Programme of Work and possible synergies in the region	pdf
4d	23rd session of COFO	pdf
5	Review of 2016 activities, and activities planned for 2017	pdf
5	Assessment of the relevance of the 2014-2017 UNECE/FAO Integrated Programme of Work to the needs of member states	pdf
5	Report on the 38th session of the Joint Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management	pdf
5	The Strategic Review of the Integrated Programme of Work for COFFI and EFC	pdf
7	UNECE/FAO Lasy2017 and the 4th European Forest Week in Warsaw, Poland	pdf

Side events

Tuesday, 18 Oct 2016

Exhibition “Clean Forest Forum”
Guided Tour on the wood construction of the WIPO conference hall; Find a 3 minute video of the construction and more information on the conference hall here.

Wednesday, 19 Oct 2016

Guided Tour on wood constraction of the temporary Opéra des Nations in Geneva; Find a video of the construction of the Opéra builing here.
Exhibition and Reception hosted by the Mr. Armand Rudolf von Rohr “Clean Forest Forum” (Speech)

Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

“From a tree to a tree with the RVR-CFC Concept” presentation by Mr. Armand Rudolf von Rohr