Monday 25 August 2008
Opening welcome addresses
Ms. Lisa Sennerby Forsse - Rector, SLU
Mr. Jan Heino - Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department, FAO
Mr. Don K. Lee - President, IUFRO
Keynote addresses
Ms. Abigail Kimbell, Chief of the USDA Forest Service - Managing forests in an era of climate change: Perspectives from the U.S. Forest Service
Mr. Michael Wood, Ambassador of the United States to Sweden - Alternative energy cooperation between the U.S. and Sweden and the search for forest-based solutions
Mr. Risto Seppälä, Finnish Forest Research Institute - Increasing knowledge about adaptation of forests to climate change: An Expert Panel Approach
Technical sessions
1. Physiological responses of trees to climate3. Impacts of altered regimes to extreme abiotic events
10. Climate change and forest sector adaptive capacity
13. Forest dieback and mass mortality: Assessment and early warning