Timber Committee 
Timber Section
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15 October 2007
Opportunities and Impacts of Bioenergy Policies and Targets
on the Forest and Other Sectors
What is the future contribution of wood to meeting UNECE region's energy needs?
Programme
> Morning Session (Presentations and Discussion)
> Afternoon Session (Presentation and Panel Discussion)
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| Topic | Speaker | Time |
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| Registration and Coffee | 9:30 - 10:00 | ||
| Opening | Chairman's welcome | Johann Dengg, Timber Division, German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection |
10:00 - 10:15 |
| UNECE welcome | Virginia Cram-Martos, Director, UNECE Trade and Timber Division |
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| FAO welcome | Wulf Killmann, Director, FAO Forest Products and Industries Division |
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| Wood energy policies and recent developments in the OECD (pdf ) |
Jack Saddler Dean, University of British Columbia, Canada |
10:40 - 10:55 | |
| Wood energy in Russia - Policies and interaction with the forest sector (pdf ) |
S.E. Gryaznov Director, St. Petersburg Forest Research Institute |
10:40 - 10:55 | |
| EU policy developments and the forest-based sector (pdf ) |
Jeremy Wall, DG Industries and Enterprise, European Commission |
10:55 - 11:10 | |
| Discussion | 11:10 - 11:40 | ||
| Wood resources availability and demands - Implications of renewable energy policies (pdf ) |
Udo Mantau Kit Prins |
11:40 - 12:00 | |
| Mobilization of wood resources (pdf ) |
Gero Becker Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany |
12:00 - 12:20 | |
| Discussion | 12:20 - 13:00 | ||
LUNCH |
13:00 - 14:00 | ||
| Special event by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | 14:00 - 15:00 | ||
| Moderator: Renate Christ, Secretary of the IPCC | |||
| The role of forest and bioenergy in climate change mitigation (pdf )
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Bernhard Schlamadinger, Joanneum Research, Insitute of Energy Research |
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| Adaptation of forests to climate change (pdf )
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Andreas Fischlin Terrestrial Systems Ecology Institute of Integrative Biology: Ecology, Evolution, Infectious Disease Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich |
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| Bio-energy and the European pulp and paper industry – an impact assessment (pdf )
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Bernard de Galembert Forest Director, CEPI |
15:00 - 15:20 | |
| Wood supply for energy use in France (pdf ) |
Patrick Vallet Heterogeneous Forests Team, Forest Ecosystems Research Unit, Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research - Cemagref |
15:20 - 15:35 | |
| Discussion | 15.35 - 15:55 | ||
| Panel discussion: What is the future contribution of wood to meeting UNECE region's energy needs? |
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| Moderator: Richard P. Vlosky, Director, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center |
16:00 - 17:30 | ||
| The role of bioenergy for energy objectives (pdf ) |
Björn Telenius Swedish Energy Agency |
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| The forest products industry role in meeting energy-related challenges (pdf ) |
Jerry Schwartz Executive Director Policy Analysis & Research Group American Forest & Paper Association |
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| Contribution of Agriculture to biomass supply (pdf ) |
Dietrich Klein Chairman of EU Commission's Advisory Group on Energy Crops, COPA - COGECA |
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| Certification of biomass & environmental impacts (pdf ) |
Ishmael Dodoo ProForest |
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| Bioenergy – a future with European family forestry (pdf ) |
Christer Segerstéen Vice President, CEPF |
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| Chairman's summary (pdf ) |
Johann Dengg | 17:40 - 18:00 | |
| Closing remarks | |||
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