Activities and events
TF Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bioeconomy
From/To | Units | Title | Location | |
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2024-10-04 |
Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Carbon sequestration in Plantations | online | ||
Contact: Christophe Orazio, Email: c.orazio@iefc.net |
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2024-03-29 |
Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Robot for Silviculture and Automatic Planting Machine | online | ||
Contact: Christophe Orazio, Email: c.orazio@iefc.net |
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2024-01-19 |
Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Forest Risk and Insurance | online | ||
Contact: Christophe Orazio, Email: c.orazio@iefc.net |
Past meetings and events
- Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Carbon sequestration in Plantations; online; 4 October 2024, 9:00-10:30 AM CEST. Speakers: Loretta Garrett and Serajis Salekin, Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd); Ander Arías González, NEIKER; Simon Martel, I4CE. Webinar Homepage
- Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Robot for Silviculture and Automatic Planting Machine; 29 March 2024, 9:00-10:30 AM CET. Webinar homepage - Video recording and presentation - Report
- Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Forest Risk and Insurance; online; 19 January 2024, 1:30-3:00 PM CET. Speakers: Guillaume Bouffard, MISSO GROUPAMA; Phil Cottle, ForestRe Ltd.; Peter Welten, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. Video recording - Report
- 5th International Congress on Planted Forests; Nairobi, Kenya; 7-10 November 2023. Conference homepage - Report - Photos
- Webinar: Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Results of the Virtual Forests Project: New IT Tools For Forests Education; online; 29 September 2023, 1:30-3:00 PM CET. Video recording
- Global Challenges and Innovative Management of Bark and Wood Borers in Planted Forests; Bordeaux, France; 29 August - 1 September 2023; Units involved: 7.03.05, 7.03.07, 7.03.16; Task Force on Precision Pest Management (PPM) in Forest Ecosystems, Task Force on Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bioeconomy. Conference homepage - Report
- Webinar: Let’s Talk About Planted Forests: Open Session with Flash Talks; online; 22 June 2023. Video recording and Presentations
- Webinar: Let's talk about Planted Forests: Monitoring and Control of Invasive Pests and Pathogens, in EU-Planted Forests; online; 21 April 2023, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CEST. Report - Video recording and Presentations
- Webinar: Let's talk about Planted Forests: Tree Breeding; online; 13 January 2023; 1:00-2:30 pm CET. Webinar homepage - Report - Video recording and Presentations
- Webinar: Let's talk about Planted Forests: Clearcutting; online; 25 November 2022, 14:00 CET. Report - Video recording and Presentations
- Management of mixed and pure planted forests: Stock-taking of science and practice; Rome, Italy; 29-30 September 2022. Report
- NGP|IUFRO Forest Plantations in Resilient Landscapes Study Tour; Limoges, France; 27-29 September 2022. Event homepage
- Webinar: Let’s Talk About Planted Forests – Clonal Forestry; online; 16 September 2022 - Video recordings and Presentations
- Webinar: Let's talk about Planted Forests: will we run out of seeds?; online; 18 March 2022, 14:00 CET. Report - Video recording and Presentations
- ThinkForest event on “The future of plantation forests in Europe”; Brussels, Belgium; 17 December 2019.
Event website: http://www.efi.int/articles/green-deal-needs-plantation-forests
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPeuNyWRxTM
Publication "Plantation forests in Europe: challenges and opportunities": http://www.efi.int/sites/default/files/files/publication-bank/2019/efi_fstp_9_2019.pdf
- Session C9B 'Planted Forests for a Greener Future and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)', XXV IUFRO World Congress; Curitiba, Brazil; 4 October 2019;
Details: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/691/program-app/session/6185;
Report: https://www.efi.int/articles/efiplant-xxv-iufro-world-congress-2019
Cooperation with WWF: https://www.efi.int/articles/planted-forests-task-force-iufro-signs-memorandum-understanding-wwf
Publications
- Global Challenges and Innovative Management of Bark and Wood Borers in Planted Forests; Bordeaux, France; 29 August - 1 September 2023; Units involved: 7.03.05, 7.03.07, 7.03.16; Task Force on Precision Pest Management (PPM) in Forest Ecosystems, Task Force on Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bioeconomy. Book of Abstracts
- Thiffault, N., Lenz, P.R.N., Hjelm, K. (2023). Plantation Forestry, Tree Breeding, and Novel Tools to Support the Sustainable Management of Boreal Forests. In: Girona, M.M., Morin, H., Gauthier, S., Bergeron, Y. (eds) Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 74. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_14
- Klinger, S.; Bayne, K.M.; Yao, R.T.; Payn, T. Credence Attributes in the Forestry Sector and the Role of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Factors. Forests2022, 13, 432. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13030432
Activities planned for the period 2019-2021 and main deliverables are the following :
- D1 : Science-Society interface
- D1.1 Organization of New Generation Plantations Encounters combining NGOs, scientists and professionals:
- D1.1.1.2019 NGP Encounter, Mozambique: focus on plantations societal role;
- D1.1.2 2020 NGP Encounter, United States: focus on Bio-economy;
- D1.1.3 2020 NGP Encounter, France : focus on plantation perception
- D1.1.4 2021 NGP Encounter, Germany : focus on new plantations needs
- D1.2 : Presentation of the Science to policy book in Thinkforest event december 2019
- D1.3 : Preparation of fifth international congress for planted forest in Florida (2023)
- D1.1 Organization of New Generation Plantations Encounters combining NGOs, scientists and professionals:
- D2 : Networking activities and events
- D2.1 : Maintenance of webpage and electronic material presenting the task force
- D2.2 : Organization of a session in IUFRO world congress Curitiba October 2019
- D2.3 : Co-Organization of Multiple purpose forestry Chinese event in October 2020
- D2.4 : Preparation of a project to facilitate expert exchange on planted forest risk management tools
- D2.5 : Task Force collaboration with NGP on a joint program, supporting publications, targeting priority gap areas needing further information and/or better communication.
- D2.6: Reforestation challenge international congress in 2021
- D2.7 : International poplar commission and other fast growing trees sustaining people and the environment session October 2020
- D3 : Publications
- D3.1 : Publication of special issue dedicated to planted forests potential and impacts in Europe in Science to Policy EFI series in December 2019
- D3.2 : Publication of a chapter in the book on sustainable management of temperate and boreal forest in November 2019
- D3.3 : First announcement of ICPF 2023 in summer 2021
- D3.4 : Other scientific papers and/or proceedings based on events presentations will be produced in 2020
- Long term plan (Activities for the period 2021-2023)
The task force will facilitate the organization of the 5th international congress on planted forest (ICPF) to be held in the USA in 2023.
Send comments to Christophe Orazio (Task Force Coordinator)