DAAD FD6 Workshop
Background
The Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is this year hosting the 3rd international students and alumni workshop on "Forests in Climate Change Research and Policy: The Role of Forest Management and Conservation in a complex International Setting" that is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. Our workshop traditionally takes place along the Forest Day that is organized as side event to the conference of the parties by CIFOR on behalf of the collaborative partnership on forests. For more information on the background see the last years workshops in Cancun and Durban.
Guest lectures
The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet on our workshop in Durban and Doha there will be an introductory seminar with guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations will give an introduction to the climate change- policy process and the role of forests in this context. The lectures are open to all interested. For those students who are not in Göttingen and for the international alumni participating in our workshop, a comprehensive abstract will be prepared. We are happy about high level speakers.
Seminar papers
1) Forest in land use in the tropics: challanges in their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation (video conference)
Prof. Dr. Markku Kanninen, University of Helsinki, Finnland
Prof. Kanninen is a professor of Tropical Silviculture. He was formerly scientific director at CATIE, Costa Rica, and at CIFOR, Indonesia. He is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund Board.
2) REDD+: part of the international forest policy instruments
Dr. Horst Freiberg, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn
Dr. Freiberg is head of the Division Forest Conservation, Sustainable Forest Management, Biological Diversity and Climate Change in the Department of Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.
3) Forest and climate: the international framework for a regulation
Prof. Dr. jur. Peter-Tobias Stoll, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen
Prof. Stoll is head of the Chair of International Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law.
4) REDD+ implementation pathways. How to adress the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation
Dr. Timm Tennigkeit, Unique Forestry Consultants, Freiburg
Dr. Tennigkeit is a managing director of UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH and has comprehensive experience in the implementation of carbon forestry projects in Africa and Asia.
Download presentation: File:2012-11 Göttingen REDD driver.pdf
- Introduction Seminar on 06.11.2012, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn
Dr. Horst Freiberg
Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll
International students
Dr. Timm Tennigkeit, UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH
Interested audience
We found out that some FD6 workshop participants from Munich and Dresden traveled to Göttingen to attend our introduction seminar. We highly appreciate their commitment!
FD6 Workshop program
The program of our workshop will be fixed soon, we are still waiting for the announcement of presentation titles of some participants!
