Forestry

Aligning the supply and value chain is one of the greatest challenge towards developing new materials, technology and construction of a biorefinery. In this webinar Futurity will talk through their unique approach to collaboration and demonstrate the importance of bringing together key players within the value and supply chain to facilitate adoption of materials for end consumers.

The European Parliament gave a “go” to the Com Agri Report on the “European Forest Strategy – the way forward”. This plenary vote sent a positive signal for forest owners and managers and the 4 million workers involved in the forestry value chains.

The “Wood in Construction Systems Map,” developed by the University of Edinburgh, aims to uncover ways to increase the carbon benefits of wood fibre in UK construction. The map is part of EIT Climate-KIC’s Landscapes as Carbon Sinks Deep Demonstration in Scotland, a project aiming to help the country’s landscape systems decarbonise, adapt and increase resilience to climate change, and foster a bioeconomy—the sustainable extraction and production of natural resources, like wood.

This event aims to understand and discuss the public perceptions of forests, forestry and the forest-based bioeconomy. How is media and science shaping the public perception of forests in Europe? How can public understanding and communication on the role of forests and forestry be improved?

The second international Drivers for Wood Construction event including Rothoschool on tour will be held in Joensuu 21.-22.10.2020. The seminar will focus on the most recent challenges of the construction industry such as future building solutions, low carbon construction, technical and structural details of timber buildings, and finally, on the building codes in respect of fire and BIM.

The use of good practices in biomass supply can offer opportunities within the agricultural and forestry sectors to deliver more biomass while fulfilling the need to manage landbased ecosystems sustainably and to foster employment and profit generation in rural areas.

Please save the dates for a series of joint workshops by SBP, IEA Bioenergy and ETIP Bioenergy devoted to exploring REDII implementation and delivering good woody biomass.

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium aims to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping.

FAO launched the most comprehensive forestry assessment to date in an innovative and easy-to-use digital format.

The Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) in July advised the Dutch government to phase out bioenergy and instead use biomass for high value applications, according to a report filed with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service’s Global Agricultural Information Network.

The webinar focused on the European Green Deal and its impacts on forest management and protection in Europe, with a special focus on the integration of biodiversity conservation into sustainable forest management – which is the main focus of the Network.

The latest of the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment, FRA 2020, examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990–2020.

The conference at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, Germany, was focused on addressing climate change impacts, as well as the needs for mitigation and adaptation.

The European Commission announced an ambitious roadmap to tackle the challenges ahead of us. The “European Green Deal” is designed in such a way that no individual nor any region should be left behind the great transformation. The governmental initiative for knowledge-based agriculture, aquaculture, and forestry in the bioeconomy – BIOEAST, of 11 Central and Eastern European member states could play a key role in helping to form the necessary partnerships, to join forces in developing needs, priorities and to work together at the European level in order to achieve the common objectives.

EFI, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) and University of Eastern Finland (UEF) are joining forces to create an International Bioeconomy Knowledge Hub (BioHub) in Joensuu. The three organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this month.

The Nordic-Baltic research organisations’ network PROFOR would like to invite stakeholders and policymakers to discuss synergies and to highlight trade-offs between sustainable forest production and other ecosystem services, in an European and a science-based knowledge context.

The Swedish forest industry has a positive effect on the global climate equivalent to 93 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, when both forest and forest products are taken into account. This means that the positive climate effect of the forest industry is almost as great as the total Swedish consumption of 100 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

None of the EU countries are currently using their full potential in terms of renewable energy production.