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European
Forest Week 20-24
October 2008 | Rome, Italy
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Highlights for Tuesday, 21 October 2008
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The first
European Forest Week opened on Tuesday, 21
October 2008, in Rome, Italy, during the joint
meeting of the Sixty-sixth session of the UN
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Timber
Committee and the Thirty-fourth session of the
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) European
Forestry Commission. During the morning, plenary
heard opening statements, addressed
organizational matters, and considered the topic
of Forests and Climate Change. In the afternoon,
participants met in parallel policy dialogues,
and the Timber Committee’s Market Discussions.
Above photo: Tile artwork donated by Tunisia
to FAO depicting an olive harvest. |
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OPENING SESSION:
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Jim Butler, Deputy Director-General, FAO,
opened the session, which was moderated by Jan Heino, Assistant
Director-General, FAO. Lars Peder Brekk,
Norway’s Minister for Agriculture and Food and Co-Chair of the
Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe, Paulo Garonna, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNECE and
Benito
Marin Herero, on behalf of the European Commission, made opening
remarks. |
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| Paulo
Garonna, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNECE. |
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Benito Marin Herero, on
behalf of the European Commission. |
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JOINT TIMBER COMMITTEE/EUROPEAN FOREST
COMMISSION SESSION |
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| Above photo
L-R: Virginia Cram-Martos, UNECE; Co-Chair
Alain Chaudron, France; Co-Chair Johann Georg
Dengg, Germany; Kit Prins, UNECE; and
Wulf Killmann, FAO. |
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SESSION ON FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE |
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| The morning plenary
discussion on forests and climate change highlighted the need
for country-level assessments, the carbon sequestration and
substitution roles of forests, an integrated approach to climate
change adaptation and mitigation strategies, and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth
Assessment Report's chapter on ecosystem services provided by
forests and the impacts of climate change. |
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| Tim
Rollinson, UK Forestry Commission. |
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| Above photo
L-R: Christer Segersteen, CEPF; Teresa
Presas, Confederation of European Paper
Industries (CEPI); Carole Saint-Laurent, IUCN. |
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ANNUAL MARKET DISCUSSIONS |
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| The market
discussions in the afternoon focused on forests and
climate change, green building, certification, and
wood raw material markets. Above photo L-R:
Nikolay Burdin, NIPIEllesprom; Ruth Nussbaum,
ProForest; Carl-Eric Guertin, QWEB;
Helmuth Resch, BOKU; Co-Chair Chaudron;
Co-Chair Dengg; and Ed Pepke, UNECE/FAO. |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS: |
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dialogues addressed improving forest law enforcement and
governance, the new forest policy of the Russian Federation, the
role of wood products in climate change mitigation, forest
owners and climate change, and increasing knowledge about
adaptation of forests to climate change. |
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RECEPTION at FAO ROOFTOP: |
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