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 9 Sept 2008    10 Sept 2008  

25 October 2008

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Chairman : Christian Küchli (Swiss FOEN)

9 Sept 2008: Introduction and National Experiences
TIME TITLE SPEAKER
9:30 - 9:50 Welcome statements (Swiss FOEN, UNECE, FAO, MCPFE)
9:50 - 10:40 Role of Harvested Wood Products (HWP) for climate change mitigation Murray Ward (Global Climate Change Consultancy, New Zealand)
Implications of HWP accounting on Kyoto Protocol reporting Maria-José Sanz Sanchez (UNFCCC)
 

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 HWP vs. forest sinks – CO2 effects of the Swiss Forestry and Timber industry Peter Hofer (Geopartner, Switzerland)

HWP - an incentive for deforestation?

Andreas Fischlin (ETH Zurich)
  Lunch and Networking
13:30 - 14:50

Substitution effects of wood-based construction materials

Leif Gustavsson (MID Sweden University)
Alternative approaches for accounting for HWP Kim Pingoud (VTT, Finland)
14:50 - 15:50

National experiences with HWP modeling in Germany

Sebastian Rüter, (vTI Germany)
HWP inventory in Finland

Anna-Leena Perälä (VTT, Finland)

  Coffee break
16:10 - 17:10

National experiences with HWP modeling and reporting:

France

Estelle Vial (FCBA)

Austria

Tobias Stern (BOKU, Austria)

17:10 - 17:40 Discussion & closing of the first day
18:00 Reception

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10 Sept 2008: Opportunities and Impacts of HWP accounting
TIME TITEL SPEAKER

9:00 – 10:00

Impacts of accounting for carbon storage in HWP on wood working and construction industries

Christian Kofod (Association of Danish Woodworking and Furniture Industries / CEI-bois)

Impacts on pulp and paper industries

Reid Miner (US National Council of Air and Stream)
  Coffee break

10:20 –12:20

Panel discussion on Opportunities and impacts of HWP accounting
Point of views and impacts on:
  • Forest management and forest owners
  • Forest ecosystems, conservation and biodiversity
  • Deforestation (in particular in the tropics)
  • Wood-processing industries

Moderator: Maxim Lobovikov (FAO, Forest Products Service)

Panelists:
Trevor Hesselink (CPAWS Wildlands League, Canada)
Hannes Böttcher (IIASA, Austria)
Christer Segerstéen (Confederation of European Forest Owners - CEPF)
Christian Kofod (Association of Danish Woodworking and Furniture Industries / CEI-bois)
Reid Miner (US National Council of Air and Stream)

  Lunch and Networking
 

HWP and international trade - an outlook

John Perez-Garcia (University of Washington, USA)
 

Future HWP accounting - key decisions to be made

Paulo Canaveira (Ministry of Environment, Land-use Planning and Regional Development, Portugal)
  Coffee break
15:20 - 16:30 Conclusions of the workshop and final discussion
Closing of the workshop

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