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SYMPOSIUM ON:

Short Rotation Forestry:Synergies for Wood Production and Environmental Amelioration
8-10 February 2011, Ludhiana, India

Conference announcement
Contact: Sanjeev Chauhan, Email: chauhanpau(at)rediffmail.com
Tel: +91- 161- 2401960 ext. 380; +91-16- 2410026 Fax. 91-161- 2400945

A final public workshop will be held from 28 February - 2 March 2011 in Italy.

More information coming soon.

Benwood Workshop

From 26th to 28th April 2010, an „International workshop on Short Rotation Forestry Potential in Energy Utilization and Carbon Trade“ was held at Xijiao Hotel in Beijing. It was hosted by the Beijing Forestry University, one of the Benwood project partners with the support of Beijing Forestry Carbon Administration and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry. The workshop provided an opportunity for a fruitful exchange between scientists, project developers and investors from the main affected target countries: China, India, Brazil and Africa as a continent.

What is Benwood about?

The Benwood is a research project within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union promoting the exchange of experience among researchers and project developers in the area of Short Rotation Forestry (SRF).

The project touches also the closely related field of Agroforestry.

Focus is on developing countries and on SRF projects in the framework of the Kyoto protocol (CDM and JI).

The project by work packages

Assessment of the state of the art of SRF as a biofuel source in JI and CDM countries(wp1) with a focus on CDM countries (wp2).
Linking the project to current European and non-European R&D-activities in the area(wp3).

Building an International Stakeholder Panel within the area of SRF.

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Main outputs

1. SRF guidelines and standards for land use management (wp4) for farmers, policy makers and European CDM/JI project developers as well as stakeholders from the energy and biomass sector (electric utilities, pulp & paper, fibreboard etc.)

2. SRF R&D agenda (wp5) for researchers and developers from industry (boiler, oven, chipper, press producers etc.) wp1

The Benwood consortium -- This project is financed by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7)