Las2017 - joint session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the FAO European Forestry Commission

Please find below the presentations given at the Las2017 during the official session:

  Presentations given at Las2017 during special events:

Films shown during field trips at Las2017:

Please download the draft programme of the Joint Session (as of 3 October) here.

Please download the handbook of the Joint Session here.

Las 2017 was held in conjunction with the 4th European Forest Week (EFW), which was celebrated throughout Europe during the same week. As part of Las2017 and as a contribution to the EFW, Special Events were organised at the joint session in Warsaw under the theme of Las2017.

The following special events took place:

- Forest Carbon Farms: The Polish State Forests’ innovative project for climate protection

- New Green Jobs in the Forest Sector

- Development projects of the Polish State Forests as a major stimulator for rural and less urbanized areas

- Developing a communication strategy for the UN Strategic Plan for Forests

- Circumboreal Cooperation

- Linking livelihoods to climate resilient landscapes: Forest and farm producer organizations as key actors in achieving the SDGs and the Paris Accord

- Forest management planning in Poland: Organization, history, future

- The outcomes of the survey on perception of SFM and Forest Certification

- The Timber Inventory System Project – Combating illegal logging: Tools technologies and education

- The natural and cultural heritage of the Bialowieża Forest

The following 3 field trips were offered to participants at Las2017 (more detailed information can be found below):

Field Trip 1 (13-14 October): Białowieża Forest – Mankind's natural and cultural heritage

Field Trip 2 (13 October): Forest Carbon Farms – The State Forests’ innovative project for climate protection

Field Trip 3 (13 October): Visit of the head office of the Forest Research Institute in Sękocin Stary near Warsaw

Field Trip 1 (13-14 October)
Białowieża Forest – Mankind's natural and cultural heritage

Field Trip 2 (13 October)

Forest Carbon Farms – The State Forests’ innovative project for climate protection

Field Trip 3 (13 October)

Visit of the head office of the Forest Research Institute in Sękocin Stary near Warsaw

Participants will have opportunity to know the main research topics in Polish forestry. The organizers are going to present general information about capacity building of national research in areas such as remote sensing and Lidar measurements used in forest management and monitoring, presentation of the prevention and monitoring of forest fires, methods and results about carbon sequestration in forest soils, the progress in DNA analyses using in forestry, best practises in forest environmental education, forest inventory system in Poland and data management by Forest Data Bank. Besides the cameral presentation, there will be an office presentation both in the laboratories, as well as in the local forest.

The host organizations are leaders in national forest science and inventory. The Forest Research Institute was established in 1930 and is currently subordinated to the Minister of Environment. IBL cooperates within the frameworks of IUFRO, FAO, EFI and Forest Europe.

The Bureau for Forest Management and Geodesy (BULiGL) is a state enterprise. It is the main contractor of forest management planning in Poland. The company consists of the headquarters and 12 branches, employing in total about 700 people.

“Sustainable Forest Management and Sustainable Forest Products in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Capacity-building Workshop during Las2017

On 11 - 12 October 2017

This workshop was a parallel event to Las2017, the joint session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the FAO European Forest Commission.

The workshop was organised especially for forest sector experts and forest-related government officials from the Caucasus and Central Asia, namely from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

The workshop had three main topics (i) Monitoring and assessment of Sustainable Forest Management, (ii) Forest restoration, and (iii) Sustainable forest products and markets.

The programme is available here.

«Устойчивое Управление Лесами и Устойчивая Лесная Продукция на Кавказе и в Центральной Азии». Семинар состоялся 11-12 октября 2017го года в Варшаве, Польша. Этот семинар прошел параллельно с Las2017, совместного заседания Комитета ЕЭК по лесам и лесной промышленности и Европейской лесной комиссии ФАО.

Семинар был организован специально для экспертов лесного сектора и государственных служащих, связанных с лесами, из Кавказа и Центральной Азии, а именно из Армении, Азербайджана, Грузии, Казахстана, Кыргызстана, Таджикистана, Туркменистана и Узбекистана.

Программа семинара была основана на трех основных темах: i) мониторинг и оценка устойчивого управления лесами(УУЛ), (ii) восстановление лесов и (iii) устойчивая лесная продукция и рынки.

Здесь вы найдете программу встречи.