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Conference: Our Forests, Our Future

The Forestry Conference will discuss the opportunities and challenges for the forest sector and consider its future contributions to the EU’s wider aims.

  • rural development | common agricultural policy
  • Thursday 25 April 2019, 08:30 - Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00 (CEST)
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Live streaming available

Media

Photographs taken at the conference

Video presentations
Day 2 session 5 – Tree planting in action

Files

10 JANUARY 2019
Forestry Conference 2019 programme
English
(423.21 KB - PDF)
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24 APRIL 2019
Forestry Conference 2019 speakers biographies
English
(702.75 KB - PDF)
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24 APRIL 2019
Forestry Conference 2019 participants
English
(396.6 KB - PDF)
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24 APRIL 2019
Forestry Conference 2019 brochure
English
(25.43 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 opening session: Reinhardt Neft (EUSTAFOR)
English
(491.03 KB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 opening session: Fanny-Pomme Langue (CEPF)
English
(1.47 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 1: Contribution of the forest sector to innovation, growth and jobs - Lena Ek (SÖDRA)
English
(5.6 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 1: Rising to the Opportunity of the Bioeconomy - John Kozij (Economics and Industry Branch of the Canadian Forest Service)
English
(4.02 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 1: Panel discussion - Peter Clinch (University College Dublin)
English
(184.71 KB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 1: Panel discussion - Niklas von Weymarn (Metsä Spring)
English
(595.46 KB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 1: Panel discussion - Guillermo Hernanz (Plywood Group, European Panel Federation (EPF))
English
(2.27 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 2: The role of Forestry in meeting the Paris Agreement objective - Peter Holmgren (former Director-General of CIFOR)
English
(1.1 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 2: Panel discussion - Felix Montecuccoli (Austrian Forest and Landowners Association)
English
(657.9 KB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 2: Panel discussion - Adrian Enache (Forestry Sector and Rural Development Specialist, European Investment Bank)
English
(1.87 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 3: Panel discussion - Alistair Monument (WWF)
English
(3.07 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 3: Panel discussion - Margarida Tomé (University of Lisbon)
English
(8.89 MB - PDF)
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25 APRIL 2019
Day 1 session 3: Panel discussion - Tuula Packalen (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke))
English
(587.8 KB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 4: Panel discussion - Valerie Merckx (EU REDD Facility, EF)
English
(532.49 KB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 4: Panel discussion - Stewart Maginnis (Nature-based Solutions Group, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN))
English
(656.92 KB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 4: Panel discussion - Tiina Vähänen (Forestry Policy and Resources Division, Forestry Department, FAO)
English
(1.63 MB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 5: Kai Lintunen (Head of International Communication, Finnish Forest Association and Leader of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network)
English
(7.53 MB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 5: Felix Finkbeiner (Plant for the Planet)
English
(6.38 MB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 5: The Phoenix Park - Noel O’ Shea (Trees Ireland)
English
(5.05 MB - PDF)
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26 APRIL 2019
Day 2 session 5: Lars Heiselberg Vang Jensen (Growing Trees Network Foundation)
English
(3.11 MB - PDF)
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Practical information

When
Thursday 25 April 2019, 08:30 - Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00 (CEST)
Where
Charlemagne Building
Charlemagne Building, Rue de la Loi 170, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

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