Seminar on the State of Forests in the UNECE Region

Geneva, 21 March 2011

United Nations Geneva, Room V

Agenda item	From	To	Content
Opening of the Regional Forest Information Week
	09.00	10.00	Opening of the week, celebration of World Forest Day, ceremony of tree planting
Opening of the Seminar (Chairperson: Linda Langner, USA)
1	10.00	10.10	Opening of the Seminar - welcome addresses
Session 1. A picture of the present and the past: overview of twenty years of SFM (Chairpersons: Simon Gillam, UK and Pat Miles, USA)
2	10.10	10.15	Introduction to the Session. State of forests and forest management in the UNECE region, based on regional and global reporting
	10.15 10.35 10.55 11.15	10.35 10.55 11.15 11.35	1. Extent of forest resources, Claude Vidal  2. Forest health and vitality, Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz 3. Productive functions of forest resources, Marco Marchetti and Annemarie Bastrup Birk 4. Forest biological diversity, Jari Parviainen
	11.35	11.50	Coffee break
	11.50 12.10	12.10 12.30	5. Socio-Economic Functions, Simon Gillam General discussions (Q&A after each presentation)
Session 2. Wood resources - status, trends and challenges (Chairperson: Mette Loyche Wilkie, FAO)
3	12.30	12.35	Introduction to the session. Status and trends of wood resources and production.Presentations will evaluate the results of forest management in the past 20 years and the implications for future management plan.
3	12.35	13.00	1. Presentation of the status, trends, plans and forecasts for wood resources management in the United States of America, Linda Langner, Jeff Prestemon, USA
	13.00	15.00	Lunch Break
3	15-00	15.20	2. Presentation of the status, trends and plans for wood resources management from the Russian Federation, Andrey Filipchuk
	15.20	15.30	3. Presentation of the results of EUWOOD project to assess the “real potential for change” in EU wood supply, Kit Prins
	15.30	15.40	4. Presentation of the work on wood availability of COST ACTION on improving data and information on potential wood supply, Annemarie Bastrup Birk
	15.40	16.00	The floor will be opened for discussion covering availability and quality of current data and information systems
Session 3. Criteria and Indicators - How useful are they for SFM assessment? (Chairperson: Aljoscha Requardt, EFI)
4	16.00	16.05	Introduction to the session. Lessons learned from the implementation at the global and regional levels to be followed by a panel discussion on how to further develop this concept for future application:
			1. Lessons learnt and information on plans for:
	16.05 16.20	16.20 16.35	a. Global FRA, FAO FRA Team, Mette Loyche Wilkie, FAO   c. Forest Europe C&I, Stein Tomter, Forest Europe
			2. Usefulness of C&I from the perspective of experts external to the process
	16.35 17.00 17.15	17.00 17.15 17.30	a. Peter Duinker, Dalhousie University, Canada b. Thorsten Arndt, PEFC, Geneva c. Kit Prins, international forestry expert
	17.30	18.00	Panel discussion with participation of the audience to discuss the usefulness of the C&I and their future
18.00 - Closing of the Seminar
The Seminar will be followed by a reception hosted by Finland

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