Forestry: A sectoral response to climate change

21^st to 23^rd November 2006

What was the event?

This international conference brought together leading experts from 15 countries to consider practical proposals on the way forward:

• Can we predict the impacts of climate change on boreal, temperate and tropical forest systems?
• What contribution can carbon sequestration in forests globally make to the mitigation of climate change?
• Does present forestry policy and practice adequately accommodate the current understanding of climate change?
• Are the current international frameworks and agreements achieving sustainable forestry, reforestation and are they
• sufficient to stop deforestation and forest degradation?
• How should the national and international forest sectors respond to climate change in future?
• Are new research, organisational, policy and practice initiatives required?

Conference programme

Summary report

Presentations given at the conference are provided below.

Who was the event suitable for?

Invited participants dawn from an international community of scientific experts and policy makers.

Where did the event take place?

Wilton Park Conferences
Wiston House
Steyning
West Sussex BN44 3DZ
UK

Presentations

Note: presentations below are downloaded from the Wilton Park website and opened in a new browser window.

• Welcome address ^(PDF-64K)
  Professor Jim Lynch
• Drivers of deforestation drivers of deforestation and forest degradation: Implications for policy implications for policy ^(PDF-453K)
  Ghazal Badiozamani
• Forest sector responses: Report of Working Group 3 ^(PDF-124K)
  Mark Broadmeadow
• Carbon sequestration as a forestry opportunity in a changing climate ^(PDF-1020K)
  Jeff Burley
• Forestry and climate change: Global understandings and possible responses ^(PDF-30K)
  Paul Ekins
• Commercial and project-based responses and associated research initiatives in the forest sector ^(PDF-30K)
  Paul Hanson
• Risks and uncertainties ^(PDF-198K)
  Wilma Harper
• Present and future carbon sources and sinks ^(PDF-2254K)
  Martin Heimann
• National forest monitoring systems: Purposes, options and status ^(PDF-1314K)
  Peter Holmgren
• International forest policy and differentiated options for climate change forest policy in developing countries ^(PDF-175K)
  Sergio Jauregui
• Direct effects of elevated CO2 on forest productivity ^(PDF-3610K)
  David F. Karnosky
• Climate change impacts on extensively managed forest: a modelling approach ^(PDF-1726K)
  Denis Loustau
• Product substitution product substitution and wood products and wood products ^(PDF-2271K)
  Gregg Marland
• The forest science/policy interface ^(PDF-172K)
  Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho
• Forestry in Europe under changing climate and land use: the ATEAM project ^(PDF-258K)
  Gert-Jan Nabuurs
• Forest management in Europe and its role in the cycle carbon cycle ^(PDF-5304K)
  Gert-Jan Nabuurs
• Impact of climate change on forest soil carbon: Principles - factors - models - uncertainties ^(PDF-2397K)
  Markus Reichstein
• Governance: International/national communication ^(PDF-70K)
  Marcus Sangster
• Soils and waste management: A challenge to climate change ^(PDF-20237K)
  James S. Schepers
• Afforestation, reforestation and reduced deforestation to sequester carbon and reduce emissions ^(PDF-737K)
  Bernhard Schlamadinger
• Global forest sector: Trends, threats and opportunities ^(PDF-182K)
  Prof. Risto Seppälä
• Energy and fuelwood ^(PDF-3805K)
  Prof. Ralph E H Sims
• Forest responses to global change in North America: Interacting forces define a research agenda ^(PDF-2784K)
  Allen M. Solomon
• Conservation of biodiversity in Russian forests ^(PDF-120K)
  Victor Teplyakov
• Conclusions and the way forward ^(PDF-1535K)
  Tim Rollinson

Contact

Peter Freer-Smith
Research Director
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU9 0DE

Tel: 01420 22255
Fax: 01420 23653
Email: peter.freer-smith@forestry.gsi.gov.uk