Presentations - Forestry and Timber

Meetings and Events

Presentations delivered at the September 2009 Latvian Wood Energy Workshop on "Current and future woody biomass for energy – Monitoring use and understanding technology"

	Topic	Speaker
	Introduction: Workshop objectives, process and clarification & Role and tasks of UNECE Timber Sector	*Ed Pepke* , UNECE/FAO Timber Section, Geneva, Switzerland
POLICY FRAMEWORK
	Current role of woody biomass for energy and material use in Europe (results of the JWEE 2007)	*Florian Steierer* , UNECE/FAO Timber Section, Switzerland
	Point of view of the forest sector regarding the renewable energy sources	*Kristaps Klauss* , Latvian Forest Industry Federation
	Role of wood biomass in reaching renewable energy targets in Latvia	*Gatis Bažbauers,* RTU - Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Latvia
THE JOINT WOOD ENERGY ENQUIRY
	The Joint Wood Energy Enquiry 2007: background, structure, methodology	*Florian Steierer* , UNECE/FAO Timber Section, Switzerland
JWEE NATIONAL EXPERIENCES: Data availability and sources (supply assessment or consumption survey), cross-sectoral cooperation, challenges, possible future steps to improve data on wood energy at national level
	Latvia	*Francesco Romagnoli* , RTU - Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Latvia
	Sweden	*Jan-Olof Loman* , Swedish Forest Agency, Sweden
	Estonia	*Mati Valgepea* , Centre of Forest Protection and Silviculture, Estonia
	Finland	*Esa Ylitalo* , Forest Statistics Information Service, Finland
	Lithuania	*Andres Kuliesis* , State Forest Survey Service (SFSS), Lithuania
	Poland	*Wojciech Cichy* , Wood Technology Institute, Poznan, Poland
WOOD FUEL ENERGY GENERATION
	BIONORM 2: goals and results	*Aivars Žandeckis* , RTU – Institute of energy System and Environment,, Latvia
	Case study of Ludza biomass project	*Edgars Vigants* , Member of the Board Affiliation: SIA “Ludzas Bio-Energija”
	Wood fuel transportation: how techniques and distances affect the economics and the environmental impacts	*Heikki Pajuoja,* Metsäteho Oy, Finland
	Is the usage of roots and stumps as wood-fuel economically and environmentally feasible?	*Dimitris Athanassiadis,* Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences – Dept. of Forest Research Management, Sweden
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
	State of the art of biomass for bioenergy assessment - an EU-project for the Baltic region: EUBioNET 3	*Ilze Dzene,* SIA EKODOMA, Latvia
	Other networks on wood energy (Baltic)	*Didzis Palejs* , Latvian Biomass Association Latbionrg, Latvia
	International trade	*Richard Sikkema* , Utrecht University, the Netherland
	WISDOM Project	*Branko Glavonic* , Belgrade University
	Sustainable forest biomass resources for biofuel production in Latvia	*Andis Lazdinš , LVMI "SILAVA”, Latvia*
	Wood energy supply and use in Belarus (English and Russian)	*Valentin Shatravko* , Head of Forestry Managing Department of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Belarus

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