PARIS, October 9, 2006 -- Energy and the Forest Products Industry: Towards Higher Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emission Reductions

September 20, 2006

Intergovernmental organizations and the private sector have joined forces to address the forest products industry and energy nexus. In two complementary international meetings, they plan to address challenges for the competitiveness of forest products and processing industry resulting from global energy developments and trends and possible responses, in particular the increase of energy and material efficiency.

A first technical workshop on 9 October 2006 in Paris will focus in particular on the technology systems leading to energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction in the pulp and paper industry. It is planned to invite selected experts specialized in the technologies to be discussed. The results of this workshop will serve as input for the international seminar on energy and the forest products industry which will be held in Rome on 30-31 October 2006.  This seminar is intended for decision makers in the public and private sectors.

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