Dear all,

the preliminary program of the IUFRO World Congress is now available online:

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/691/program-app/program

I am glad that there are so many sessions related to Division 5 Forest Products and I want to thank all office holders who have organised the sessions. I hope to see many of you in Curitiba.

Research groups and working parties will have their administrative sessions (former "business session") on Tuesday, 1st, Wednesday 2nd, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of October over the lunch break from 12:00 to 12:50 or 13:00 to 13:50 (two 50-minute blocks) and also in the evening on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd from 17:30 to 18:20 or 18:30 to 19:20. They are open for everybody and a good possibility to recruit new office holders for units. According to IUFRO rules, an office holder can serve only for two 5-year-terms. We will need to change many coordinators and deputies but I hope all of you who want to be active in Division 5 could continue in other positions.

Below I have selected the sessions related to Division 5 which are included in the present program. Hopefully I have been able to include all sessions related to forest products. They are grouped according to congress themes:

B2d Wood and tree-ring studies of forest adaptation to climate change; implications for wood production

B5a Climate change, environment and conservation: challenges from the analysis of tree rings

B5b Innovative wood protection and insect pest control strategies to mitigate climate change in the tropics and warm temperate climes

C1a Managing forest ecosystem resilience and biological and social diversity for future forest products

C2c Towards Sustainable Development of the Global Teak Sector in a Changing World

C3b Digital transformation in wood industry

C3i LPF/SFB - IAWA Panel Discussion: New Methods and Applications of Tropical Timber Identification to Promote Legal Logging

C4f Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management for Nonwood Forest Products

C5a Characterizing Properties of Plantation Wood for Optimal Value

D5a Improving forest management certification: integrating ecosystem services with forest assessments

C5c Innovative Utilization of Bamboo and Rattan Resources

C5f Quality requirements of forest biomass for biorefinery

C5g Quantifying and forecasting market specific forest products in the forestry wood chain

C5h Research and industrial use of wood bio-based (formaldehyde free) adhesives: raw material and introduction to the wood-based industry

C5i Sustainable Use of Non-timber Products and Conservation of Semi-Arid and Savanna

C5j The use of forest and mill residues for advanced bioenergy/biofuels production

C6a The role of forests and trees in the nature-based solutions discourse

C8c The Bioeconomy and Non-Wood Forest Products

C9c Resource efficiency of wood-based products and manufacturing

C9d Societal perceptions, new products, markets, and business models of the circular forest bioeconomy

D4c Valuation Issues for Wood and Nonwood Forest Products to Balance Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Managed Forests

F8a Wood and Forest Culture: Addressing a Sustainable Future

There will be also five posters sessions of Division 5 during every afternoon.

The next all-Division 5 congress will be in 2022 and we will open the bid after the world congress.

Best regards,

Pekka

Division 5 coordinator

Member of CSC

E-mail: pekka.saranpaa@luke.fi

Ph.D.,  Research Manager

Forest products and biorefinery

Natural Resources Institute Finland

Tietotie 2

02150 Espoo

FINLAND

Phone +358 29 532 2340

Mob +358 50 391230

http://www.luke.fi/en/