Nusa Dua, Bali - 8 December 2007: Forests, climate change and the forest industry - The business perspective

December 8, 2007

One of the key themes in COP13 will be the various roles of forests and forestry in climate change. Sustainable forest management, including afforestation and reforestataion, are key themes as is the activities of the forest industry sector. The forest industry (private forest owners, forest products companies) has several roles in the climate change debate. One role is as an eco-efficient user of energy and responsible manager of greenhouse gas emissions. Others include sustainable forest meanagement, producers of wood-based products and enablers of new technologies for biofuels, bio-chemicals, etc. These different roles of the forest industry in climate change are expanding and becoming clearer as the scientfiic and policy debates develop; including carbon sequestration in wood products, the deployment of intensively managed planted forests to meet expanding demand for fibre (for products and energy) and the production of bio-energ/fuels.