Keynote addresses
Confirmed plenary speakers
| Speaker | Keynote title |
Abigail Kimbell, Chief of the USDA Forest Service | Managing forests in an era of climate change: Perspectives from the U.S. Forest Service |
Michael Wood, Ambassador of the United States to Sweden | Alternative Energy Cooperation between the U.S. and Sweden |
Dieter Schoene, Climate change specialist and consultant | Forest health and adaptation of forest management: Perspectives from the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) |
Jacques Régnière Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, Canada | Predicting insect continental distributions from the physiology of individuals. |
Hans R. Heinimann | Precision Forestry - A Key Concept to Make Adaptive Management Operational? |
Malik Amin Aslam, Former Minister of State for Environment, Government of Pakistan | Carbon Market Development in Pakistan – Leveraging the innovative role of Forest Management |
Catherine Potvin, Special Advisor, Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Republica de Panama and Professor, McGill University | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: International Negotiations and Technical Challenges |
Brent Larson, Standards Officer, International Plant Protection Convention Secretariat, Rome, Italy | Phytosanitary issues related to climate change, invasive alien species and trade: How to use the framework of the International Plant Protection Convention for the management of forest health. |
Doug Konkin, Deputy Minister, British Columbia Ministry of Forests | Learning to deal with climate change and catastrophic forest disturbances |
| Risto Seppälä, Finnish Forest Research Institute | Increasing Knowledge about Adapatation of Forests to Climate Change: An Expert Panel Approach |
| Nur Masripatin, Forestry Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia | Mainstreaming climate change adaptation issues into forest policies and management practices: a way to bring concepts into actions |
Balgis Osman Elasha, Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, Khartoum, Sudan | Assessment of impacts and adaptation to climate change and the links to sustainable development in Africa |
Eskil Erlandsson, Minister for Agriculture, Sweden
| Swedish Forest Policy in a changing World |