Symposium: Tropical Restoration-Reforestation – Pros and Cons
Sponsored by: The International Society of Tropical Foresters, The International Forestry Working Group of the Society of American Foresters, and Terraformation
Date: Friday, 5 August 2022, 11 am- 2 pm EDT, 3-6 pm GMT. - Find your time zone at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
The goal of this symposium is to present some of the topics and debates connected to tropical restoration and reforestation, to help sharpen our thinking about what works under what conditions, and why. The presentations will range widely from recent controversies associated with tropical restoration and reforestation, to issues linked with governance strategies for tree planting projects, seed banks for restoration, Eucalyptus as a nonnative tree in reforestation, approaches to verification of ecosystem restoration, and getting funding for projects.
More information at: https://tropicalforesters.org/symposium-tropical-restoration-reforestation-…
Register at: https://terraformation.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_070T8D9tRZW7cMpuop5g_Q
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Dear Colleagues,
The University of British Columbia’s, Faculty of Forestry<https://forestry.ubc.ca/> is pleased to announce that applications for their flexible 8-week online Micro-Certificate in Climate Vulnerability & Adaptation<https://forestry.ubc.ca/programs/certificate/climate-micro-certificate/> are now open.
This program is designed for professionals, practitioners, and those who want to expand their interdisciplinary training in the field of climate science application, vulnerability assessment processes, and adaptation in a forestry context.
Please see the program’s details below and feel free to share this invitation with your network or on social media (Twitter<https://twitter.com/ubcforestry/status/1545103562027442178>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6950869254510456832>, Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ubcforestry/photos/a.236267483086809/5263903836989…>).
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Natasha
Natasha Carter (she, her, hers)
Senior Marketing Manager
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Online Micro Certificate: Climate Vulnerability & Adaptation
October – December 2022
Register here: https://forestry.ubc.ca/programs/certificate/climate-micro-certificate/
The Faculty of Forestry’s Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation (CVA) Micro-Certificate is a flexible 8-week online program that provides forest professionals with an understanding of climate science, vulnerability assessments, adaptation development, and how it is applied to management and business case adaptation.
Today, government and certification agencies are requiring more accountability in meeting climate change, and green industry standards. This has resulted in a surge in demand for working professionals who wish to advance their knowledge in the field of climate science, assessment and application of climate impacts and adaptation in a forestry context.
Learn how the CVA program brings science and theory into action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsZEakAnoo&t=40s
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Protect, restore and sustainably use forests:
building blocks for environmental and economic recovery
Stockholm+50 Associated Event
Monday, 30 May 2022
15.00 -16.15 PM CEST
Register here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NMpI_BzoTsCKa4SHmS1sHg
Forests and trees can play a crucial role in addressing planetary challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss while moving towards sustainable economies and increasing food security.
The State of the World’s Forests 2022 (SOFO2022) provides three pathways to implement this new perspective of making development work with the environment: ‘protect’: measures for halting deforestation; ‘restore’: making land more productive, and ‘use’: investments in building economically viable green value chains that provide resilient livelihoods. SOFO2022 is a contribution to the implementation of SDG 15 (Life on Land) and the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests and its Global Forest Goals.
Important commitments regarding the world’s forests have been made at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP26), the United Nations Environment Assembly 5.2 (UNEA 5.2), the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF17), and the Seoul Forest Declaration and the Ministerial Call on Sustainable wood adopted at World Forestry Congress (WFC) 2022.
Join FAO and Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests in this discussion on interfaces between protection, restoration and sustainable use of forests as building blocks for a green recovery. Together they can conserve nature, better provide for human well-being, and contribute to inclusive recovery, build resilient and sustainable economies.
Additional information on the State of the World’s Forests<https://www.fao.org/publications/sofo/2022/en/>.
Agenda
Moderation: Alexander Buck, Executive Director, IUFRO
* High-level opening
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests
* Setting the scene:
Three building blocks: Protection, restoration, and sustainable use of forests
John Parrotta, US Forest Service and President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
* Panel discussion: Linking the interface between the three building blocks
* Restore and use: the potential of agroforestry
Johan Ekeström, Burgapha Agroforestry, Laos
* Use and protect: Wood: a renewable construction material
Petri Heino, Program Director, Wood building program, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
* Protect and restore: ecosystem payments for carbon farming
Gabriela Violeta Soto Nilo, Department for Climate Change and Environmental Services, National Forest Commission, Chile
* Local actors and communities as partners on the ground
Cécile Ndjebet, 2022 CPF Wangari Maathai Forest Champion
* Open Discussion:
Protection, restoration and sustainable use of forests: How can these three building blocks make development work with the environment?
* Closing Remarks: Building forward: Investing into forest-based solutions
Mirey Attalah, Coordinator Nature for Climate branch, UN Environment Programme, UNEP
We are inviting you to share this with interested students.
Check out our website (QR code) and the attached poster for more
information!
With best regards,
Franziska Leonhardt
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Franziska Leonhardt
Students Tutor
Technische Universität Dresden
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products
Chair of Tropical Forestry
01062 Dresden, Germany
Tel.: +49 351 463-31851
Fax.: +49 351 463-31820
Office: Cotta-Bau, Room 0.14
E-Mail:tropentutor@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Web:http://www.forst.tu-dresden.de/Inter/
Blog:https://tropicalforestry.wordpress.com/
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to a side event at the XV World Forestry Congress on Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:30 - 20:00 KST (UTC/GMT +9) (Hybrid Event)
Evaluating policy impacts: How to best assess the effectiveness of international forest policy? Conference Room 318C, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Online participants: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85112807086
Description
Over the past decades, large areas of the world’s forests have been depleted and degraded worldwide. To respond, several international policy approaches and instruments have emerged. Although many of them are being widely implemented, there is less agreement and a lack of systematic knowledge about their effects and impacts. This session aims to present and discuss up-to-date research approaches and ongoing studies that employ a variety of methodological approaches to explore the impacts of two major international forest governance initiatives: FLEGT and REDD+
Convening organizations
* European Forest Institute,
* Center for International Forest Research,
* Technical University of Dresden,
Moderator: Yitagesu Tekle, Team leader, European Forest Institute
Introduction: Lukas Giessen, Chair of Tropical and International Forestry; TU Dresden/Germany<https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen/die-professur/inhaber-in…>
Panellists:
* Fredy Polo (TU Dresden): Systematic literature review on the impacts of FLEGT VPAs on tropical countries
* Paolo Cerutti and Jean Newbery (CIFOR-ICRAF): Perception-based methodology to assess FLEGT VPA impacts across seven countries
* Sven Wunder (EFI): Rigorous impact evaluaon of REDD+: a global meta-study
* Anna Sanders (CIFOR-ICRAF): Actor-based, ethnographic approaches to understand REDD+ impacts
* Closing remarks: Georg Winkel (WUR)
Best regards,
Dr. Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne
Team Leader - Global Forest Governance
Coordinator, Circular Bioeconomy Alliance
European Forest Institute, Bonn Office
Mob: +49 173 6581630
Skype: Yitagesu.tekle
www.efi.int<http://www.efi.int/>
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to a side event at the XV World Forestry Congress on 6 May at 12:00-13:30 Korea Standard Time (KST), UTC +9
Governance of local forest commons
Conference Room 317C, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Online participants, please register here: https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/4440100013
Description
Governance of forest commons is a key to sustaining ecosystem services for resilience of societies to adapt to the impacts of climate change and globalization. The conventional institutions including market systems have largely failed in sustainable management of forest commons. We look to the traditional systems in China, Japan and Korea that developed among communities before the modern developments and draw lessons for future. The subject of this proposed side event is the village woodlands, a specific group of forest commons that exist in different forms and meanings in various countries. In this side event, long time researchers from China, Japan and Korea will present an in-depth review of how traditional village woodlands have survived and transformed throughout the times of globalization and climate change. We will particularly draw on their lessons towards strengthening the resilience of societies for nature conservation and livelihood improvement. Panelists with insights from other countries and regions will contribute as panelists. Governance of forest commons in Asia including Fengshui forests in China, village woodlands called Satoyam and Maeulsoop in Japan and Korea, respectively will be presented with reflections. Designated panelists will include Prof. Takahashi at Utsunomiya University of Japan, who can compare with studies on the Satoyama in Japan, Professor Wil de Jong, who can contribute the insights from the cases of governing the commons in other parts of the world, and Prof. Ryo Kohsaka at the University of Tokyo, who can also provide input from the relevant forest commons study in Japan. There will be an open discussion for all participants and audience.
Convening organizations
Institute of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems, Seoul, Korea,
Seoul National University,
Renmin University of China and
Rocky Mountain Research Station of US Forest Service.
Moderator: YOUN Yeo-Chang, Director of Institute of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems; Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University, Korera
Panellists:
Liu Jinlong, Prof. Renmin University of China
Prof. Ryo Kohsaka at the University of Tokyo
Prof. Takahashi at Utsunomiya University of Japan
Dr. Nathaniel Anderson at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
Wil de Jong, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University, Japan; Adjunct professor, Renmin University of China
Best regards,
Liu Jinlong
Prof. Renmin University of China
Deputy Coordinator, IUFRO Division 9
Email: liujinlong(a)ruc.edu.cn<mailto:liujinlong@ruc.edu.cn>
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Professor Liu Jinlong
Evaluating policy impacts: HOW TO BEST ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL FOREST POLICY?
Join the Side Event!
Over the past decades, large areas of the world’s forests have been depleted and degraded worldwide. To respond, several international policy approaches and instruments have emerged. Although many of them are being widely implemented, there is less agreement and a lack of systematic knowledge about their effects and impacts. This session aims to present and discuss up-to-date research approaches and ongoing studies that employ a variety of methodological approaches to explore the impacts of two major international forest governance initiatives: FLEGT and REDD+.
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
18:30 - 20:00 KST (UTC/GMT +9)
Hybrid Event: Conference Room 318C, Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85112807086
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Prof. Dr. Lukas Giessen
Chair of Tropical and International Forestry; TU Dresden/Germany<https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen/die-professur/inhaber-in…>
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Dear colleagues,
At the end of June of this year, we will be hosting an exciting international conference on "Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms and Global Warming" in Leuven, Belgium.
You can read more about the program, its global and transdisciplinary character, and sessions on Science, Policy, and Design at: https://architectuur.kuleuven.be/urban-forests-forest-urbanisms-global-warm…. Registration can also be done through the website.
Central questions to be addressed include: What do we know about the mitigation and adaptation benefits of urban forestry? How can the climate benefits of urban forests be optimised through governance, planning, design and management? What integrative and innovative approaches can be developed, for example, in collaboration between (urban) forestry, urbanism, (landscape) architecture, ecology, sociology and other fields? What do the green and climate-resilient cities of the future look like, how are they actually made? How can large-scale tree planting and afforestation be embedded in sustainable and socially-inclusive urban forestry programs? Which new forms of forest urbanisms can be developed?
The event will take place in the beautiful and green university city of Leuven, an easy 15-minutes' train ride direct from Brussels Airport.
Kind regards,
Cecil
Dr ir Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, AFLI
Collen-Francqui International Professor, KU Leuven
Program Director, Master of Urban Forestry Leadership - https://forestry.ubc.ca/programs/graduate/professional-masters-degrees/mast…
Professor, Urban Forestry (on leave)
http://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/cecil-konijnendijkhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_1RPzIAAAAAJ&hl=en
Dear colleagues,
In addition to the recent Division 6 newsletter we would like to share this information from Prof. Siegfried Lewark with you:
Announcement of this year's annual conference of SILVA Network with an interesting topic:
Higher Forestry education in times of multiple crises: crises as framework conditions, topics, challenge and as a trigger for
improvements
More info:
https://ica-silva.eu/images/stories/silva/2022_annual_conference/20220408_F…
New book: Work in Tropical Forests
Info, abstracts of book and chapters under
www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662644423<http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662644423>
Kind regards,
Cecil Konijnendijk (Coordinator of IUFRO Division 6)
Dear IUFRO Division 6 officeholders,
The newest newsletter of Division 6 is out. Inside the newsletter, there
will be news from several of our officeholders, future events, a report on
February's webinar, and many more.
To read the newsletter, I have attached the newsletter below.
Best regards,
Vino (Communication Intern).
