UNECE - Timber Committee

THIS WEBSITE PRESENTS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNECE TIMBER COMMITTEE AND THE FAO EUROPEAN FORESTRY COMMISSION WHO WORK TOGETHER TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE, THE CIS AND NORTH AMERICA

Work area 5: policy and cross-sectoral issues

Timber Branch home

Areas of work

Markets

Forest Resources

Sector Outlook Studies

Social/Cultural Issues

Policy

Information

About UNECE/FAO work
on forests and timber

Newsletter

Main events

UNECE/FAO Policy Forums

2007 Policy forum on opportunities and impacts of bioenergy policies and targets on the forest and other sectors
2006 Policy forum on public procurement policies on wood and paper products and their impacts on sustainable forest management and timber markets
2005Policy forum on role of governments in forest certification

Meetings of the Teams of Specialists

Team of specialists on support and contributuion to sustainable development of the forest sector in the CIS and South East Europe

meetings from 2006
The Sixth Meeting of the Team of Specialists, Warsaw (Poland) 3-6 March 2004

Team of specialists on forest fires

4th International Wildland Fire Conference, Sevilla (Spain) 14-17 May 2007
Conference on Forest Fire Management and International Cooperation in Fire Emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans and Adjoining Regions of the Near East and Central Asia, Antalya (Turkey), 29 March - 3 April 2004

Other meetings

Workshop on mobilizing wood resources, Geneva, 11 - 12 January 2007
Workshop on extent and causes of illegal logging in the ECE region, 16-17 September 2004
Seminar on strategies to promote sound use of wood, Poiana Brasov (Romania), 24-28 March 2003

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Introduction

Main outputs

Methods and processes

Main partners

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