8:30-10:30
R20 – PG
Tropical wetlands, climate, and land-use change: Challenges and opportunities
The goal of this session is to generate a science-policy dialogue and provide credible scientific information for sound decision making related to the role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This session will encompass biophysical, socio-economic and governance facets of wetlands for effective conservation and restoration.
Speakers: 
Principal Scientist, CIFOR
Scientist, CIFOR
12:00-14:00
Forest tenure, sustainability performance and innovative finance: Connecting the dots from a smallholder and governance perspective
World Bank side event
The event, co-organized by the World Bank, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), will bring together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the following topics: “Securing Forest Tenure Rights. Why is it relevant for rural development and how is the World Bank helping.”, “Challenges to supporting forest livelihoods development after tenure reform.”, “Innovative finance and policy change in support of smallholders, biodiversity and SDGs.”
Speaker: 
Senior Scientist, CIFOR
12:00-14:00
ROOM R9 – WING 2
Research on forests, trees and agroforestry: What’s next? – Which priorities for the future?
FTA side event
Given the incredible amount of new findings presented by thousands of scientists from so many organizations from all over the world gathered in Curitiba (Brazil), What’s next for forestry?
The XXV IUFRO Congress brings together the latest from forest science. It is also inserted in a very dense international agenda: climate week NYC, COP25, heading to 2020 which will be a key year for the Rio Conventions, the start of a key decade for mankind and the planet.
FTA, the world’s largest R4D program in the area of forests, trees and agroforestry, would like to take this opportunity to exchange, with all interested scientists attending the conference, views and perspectives on what needs to be prioritized for future forest research.
Speakers: 
Director, CGIAR Research Program
on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)
Team Leader - Climate Change,
Energy & Low-Carbon, CIFOR
WWF/CIFOR Senior Associate
12.30-13.30
Poster Room-P05
Social aspects of Forestry
Social aspects of Forestry
Speaker: Director, CGIAR Research Program
on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)
15:30-17:30
R22 - PG
Governing innovation for sustainability in the forest sector – II
Innovation in the forest sector is a growing research interest. Various types and aspects of innovation have been tackled – ranging from new goods and services to process, marketing and organisational innovations and institutional and policy aspects. Institutional aspects and the question how to support innovativeness in the sector are a growing interest.
Speaker: 
CIFOR Senior Associate
15.30-17.30
R20-PG
Governing farm-forest interfaces: Lessons from practice and methodological advances to improve policy
In most countries farms and forests are governed by overlapping policy frameworks. The continuum from farm to forest is often overlooked as a result of the different aims, philosophies and disciplines that inform agricultural and forest policies. This session seeks to understand how and why multiple policy frameworks are often applied over a landscape, producing contradictions, confusion or gaps that affect local management decisions and behaviour, often in unintended ways.
Speaker: Senior Scientist, CIFOR
15:30-17:30
R24 – PG
An integrated approach for African Forest Landscape management: Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus
This session deals with studies on the impacts of forest management regarding the sustainable production of timber, NTFPs and their impact on the carbon cycle, biodiversity and local livelihoods. As none of these issues can be addressed without considering the socio-ecological nexus between water, food, energy and sustainable income, a stand-alone view of the forestry sector is incomplete. One of the main questions is whether integrated management of different resources in forest systems is better addressed holistically in a nexus framework rather than as separate resources.
Speaker: 
CIFOR Senior Associate
15:30-17:30
R02 - WING 3
Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People
The session is based on the IUFRO WFSE project’s forthcoming book “Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People” that addresses the potential and likely impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and forest-related livelihoods and development. The session will discuss the important interconnections and interlinkages among the SDGs and anticipated trade-offs and synergies among them from the perspective of forests and forest-related livelihoods, and shed light on how the implementation of the SDGs may influence existing forest-related development scenarios, and affect the roles of forests in sustainable development in the future.
Speakers: 
CIFOR Senior Associate
CIFOR Senior Associate
17.15-17.30
R18-PG
Quality requirements of forest biomass for biorefinery
Bioenergy and biomass-based products diversify the business opportunities in the forest cluster. In particular, biorefineries, which could be integrated into the saw mills and pulp and paper mills, seem to have immense future potential. The raw material quality requirements of wood and bark of future biorefineries may differ from those of the current industries.
Speaker: 
Scientist, CIFOR
