Workshop on Potential Sustainable Wood Supply
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On 30 March 2009 the UNECE/FAO is organizing a workshop on Potential Sustainable Wood Supply in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting is open to the public and any interested colleagues may participate in the meeting.
The draft agenda, registration information and supporting documents can be found on our website at http://timber.unece.org/index.php?id=128
For further information please contact info.timber@unece.org.
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Background:
Scientists and officials have been working intensely at this issue for some years, and preliminary results are available for many regions and types of wood. UNECE/FAO, with its partners, has made several significant contributions. However the overall picture is still not clear. Among the major issues to be clarified are the potential of tree biomass, recovered wood and trees outside the forest, and the economic, social and ecological conditions which will determine the wood availability. This workshop aims to bring together recent work and to propose an overall assessment of potential sustainable wood supply, based on all available information, for review by national and international experts. This assessment would then be valuable input to policy makers, in the forest sector and the energy sector.
Given the fact that many countries have acquired new expertise in recent years, and that there are many problems in aggregating results of studies undertaken with different ethodologies, there may be a ned for a good practice guidelines in the field of estimating potential wood supply to help new entrants and enhance comparability of results.
Objectives of the workshop:
Exchange and share national experiences between countries that have already conducted potential wood supply studies and others that can learn about the difficulties and challenges
Discuss the methodology and findings of the UNECE/FAO draft study oPotential Sustainable Wood Supply in EuropeBri
ng together national correspondents and resource specialists in order to discuss the methodologies, definitions and results of wood potential studies in general, and consider whether good practice guidelines in this field should be drawn up
Finally, contribute to building a comprehensive and reliable picture of potential wood supply as input to energy and forest policies making
Outcome:
Review regional and national potential wood supply as regards methods and results
Revised version of the UNECE/FAO study on Potential Sustainable Wood Supply in EuropA go
od practice guide on wood supply studies (scope, terminology, appropriate methods) (if considered appropriate by the workshop)
Target Audience:
Participants may come from Governments and EU institutions, research institutions, international governmental and non-governmental organisations, in particular:
Those responsible for estimating wood supply at the national or international level
Those responsible for studies of the outlook for the forest sector (national and international)
Those responsible for estimating biomass availability for energy policy
Forest sector and energy sector policy makers or their advisers
Experts on different sources of wood supply (forest resources), wood use (forest products), and/or wood energy
Experts interested in wood balances, wood flow models
Correspondents from countries (ministries for forests and energy) and forest services interested in empirical research
Interested stakeholders including forest owners, forest management, forest-based industry and bioenergy
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