Revision as of 20:40, 28 November 2012

Background

Workshop opening in Dubai.

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.

Here you can find a poster summarizing our last year activities along Forest Day 5 in Durban: File:DAAD FD5 Poster.pdf. Our Workshop Proceedings were published with ISBN number: Link

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.

Introduction 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.

Download presentation: File:2012-11 Göttingen Freiberg.pdf

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 and land use GmbH, 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

We recently found out that some FD6 workshop participants from Munich and Dresden traveled to Göttingen to attend our introduction seminar. We highly appreciate their commitment to this project!

FD6 Workshop program

You can download the final workshop program here: File:FD6 Program.pdf

Day One

10

00 - 10:30: Registration

10

30 - 10:45: Opening Address, Joachim Kolb (DAAD)

Workshop venue

Because of restricted availability of accommodation in Doha, our workshop will take place in Dubai (Ramada Hotel, Dubai). On our way back to Germany we fly through Doha to visit the Forest Day 6 (Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel)