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Metsä2013 - Joint Session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) European Forestry Commission

9-13 December 2013 | Rovaniemi, Finland

Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)

Intro - 9 December - 10 December - 11 December - 12 December - 13 December - Summary

Highlights for Wednesday, 11 December 2013

FAO European Forestry Commission matters

From L-R: Ekrem Yazici, FAO; Norbert Winkler-Ráthonyi, FAO; Co-Chair Andrey Filipchuk, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency; Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO

Dominique Reeb, UNECE/FAO

Co-Chair Andrey Filipchuk, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency

Thomas Hofer, FAO

Ekrem Yazici, FAO

Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO

UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry matters

From L-R: Paola Deda, UNECE/FAO; Co-Chair Heikki Granholm, Finland; Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECE; Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO

Co-Chair Heikki Granholm, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland

Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECE

Measuring and communicating the contribution of
the Forest Sector in a Green Economy (roundtable)

From L-R: Nina Dobrzynska, Ministry of the Environment, Poland; Kit Prins, Independent Consultant; André de Montmollin, Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland

Ivonne Higuero, Programme Coordinator and Ecosystems Management regional sub-programme coordinator, UNEP Regional Office for Europe

André de Montmollin, Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland

Nina Dobrzynska, Ministry of the Environment, Poland

Room view during the discussion

From L-R: Liubov Poliakova, Senior Officer of Science, State Forest Resources Agency, Ukraine; Rob Busink, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands; Guy Robertson, National Sustainability Program Leader, US Forest Service Research & Development; Bernard de Galembert, Forest and Innovation Director, Social Affairs Director, Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI); Thorsten Arndt, Head of Communications, Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC); Félix Romero, Regional Director for Europe, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) International; Hubert Inhaizer, European Forest Institute (EFI)

Félix Romero, Regional Director for Europe, FSC International

Hubert Inhaizer, EFI

Bernard de Galembert, Forest and Innovation Director, Social Affairs Director, CEPI

Rob Busink, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands

Liubov Poliakova, Senior Officer of Science, State Forest Resources Agency, Ukraine

Thorsten Arndt, Head of Communications, PEFC

Guy Robertson, National Sustainability Program Leader, US Forest Service Research & Development

Afternoon session

From L-R: Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECE; Paola Deda, UNECE/FAO; Co-Chair Heikki Granholm, Finland; Co-Chair Andrey Filipchuk, Russian Federation; Dominique Reeb, UNECE/FAO; Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO

Jürgen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Science and Swiss Global Forest Advisor

Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO

Paola Deda, UNECE/FAO

Christoph Dürr, Switzerland

Mia Crawford, Sweden

Alexander Panfilov, Russian Federation

Peter Csóka, FAO

Edurne Lacalle, Forest Europe

Arnaud Brizay, UNECE/FAO

Steve Smith, European Commission

Around the venue

Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)

Intro - 9 December - 10 December - 11 December - 12 December - 13 December - Summary

Related Links

Session resources

Session website and documents

Session agenda

Draft UNECE/FAO Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy

Draft Integrated Programme of Work 2014-2017 for UNECE/FAO

Side and parallel events

IISD RS resources

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IISD RS coverage of the Tenth Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF10), 8-19 April 2013, Istanbul, Turkey

IISD RS coverage of Resumed INC-Forest3, 3-5 April 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

IISD RS coverage of INC-Forests3, 28 January - 1 February 2013, Antalya, Turkey

IISD RS coverage of Twelfth Rights and Resources Initiative Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 5 November 2012, Washington, DC, United States of America

IISD RS summary report of INC-Forests2, 3-7 September 2012, Bonn, Germany (HTML - PDF)

IISD RS coverage of the FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference Oslo 2011, 29 14-16 June 2011, Oslo, Norway

IISD RS coverage of the UNFF9, 24 January - 4 February 2011, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

IISD RS coverage of the Twentieth Session of the Committee on Forestry of the FAO, 4-8 October 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

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