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 - Registration  

• 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)
     
• 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 5^th international congress on planted forest (ICPF) to be held in the USA in 2023.