Symposium

The 2021 World Wood Day Virtual Symposium and The Third IUFRO Forest Products Culture Colloquium

 

Theme

CO2 & Wood: Carbon Capture and Storage in Forests, Wood and Non-Wood Products
 

Date

21-22 March, 2021
 

Overview

The 2021 World Wood Day Virtual Symposium and The Third IUFRO Forest Products Culture Colloquium was held online for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 850 participants and audiences from 51 countries and regions joined on Zoom, YouTube and bilibili (Mainland China) from March 21-22. 39 presentations including 9 keynote speeches delivered by 41 speakers and moderated by 7 session chairs have well explored the six topics covering a wide range of research fields including carbon storage and the climate change mitigation, constructions and protection needs, furniture and musical instruments, education on sustainability and wood culture, challenges for sustainability in forest-wood chain, and wood biotechnology. The discussion and exchange of ideas were carried out both orally and in text at the online platforms.

Rationale

The background to this 2021 World Wood Day Symposium in cooperation with the Third IUFRO Forest Products Culture Colloquium is to emphasize the importance that harvested long-lived forest products (wood and non-wood materials) play in mitigating climate change particularly as stored wood-based carbon products that society values. Wood is a natural renewable raw material and is derived from CO2. Carbon is exchanged naturally between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, whereby wood is formed by photosynthesis of CO2 and water. One cubic meter of wood can correspond to the reduction of the CO2 emission from fossil fuels up to 1.1 tons.

Since the Kyoto Protocol when only forests were the essential carbon sinks for climate change mitigation, wood, and likely non-wood, products are now recognized to have complementary roles. As with forest management and conservation efforts to secure long-lived carbon sinks in forests, various efforts are also being made to secure the carbon sink effectiveness as well as the fossil fuel substitution effects of harvested wood products in climate change mitigation.

Society needs to cultivate a deep sense of cultural appreciation on the benefits of wood and non-wood products. Various strategies are needed to secure the long-lived carbon storage effectiveness of forest products through research and innovations in forest products technology as well as educational aspects concerning wood and forest culture.

Topics

  1. Carbon Capture and Storage in Forests, Wood and Non-Wood Forest Products
  2. Wood in Construction and Buildings Including Wood Durability and Protection Needs
  3. Building Components, Furniture, Musical Instruments, Artifacts Manufacturing and Design
  4. Education on Sustainable Forests, Forest Products Utilization and Wood Culture
  5. Challenges for Sustainability in the Forest-Wood Chain
  6. Wood Products and Wood Biotechnology (IAWS Special Session)
 

This symposium is co-organized by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS), International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Division 5 (Forest Products) including IUFRO Research Unit 5.15.00 (Forest Products Culture), IUFRO Research Unit 9.03.02 (Forest Culture) of Division 9 (Forest Policy and Economics), Estonian State Forest Management Centre (RMK), and with the support of International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA), International Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST), International Research Group on Wood Protection (IRGWP) as well as The Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS), and under the sponsorship of The Korean Society of Wood Science and Technology (KSWST)

 

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Please send any inquiry by email to symposium secretariat (symposium@worldwoodday.org).

 

Schedule

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Share: Opening Remarks
Share: Chair Introduction
Share: Keynote- Forest and wood products assets for climate change mitigation: prospects for maximizing their effects
Share: Keynote- “Close to Nature Forestry” as a sustainable forest management model with an integrated silvicultural system, that provides timber, carbon storage, biodiversity, and positive ambient effects.
Share: Middle Age and modern timber techniques in the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris
Share: Keynote- Working Reclaimed Wood: A Guide for Woodworkers, Makers & Designers
Share: Choice of wood in musical instruments: Italian Red Spruce and traditional mandolins
Share: 1921 - 2021: 100 years of artisanal Alphorn making; an appreciation of Adolf Oberli, the first commercial Alphorn maker in Switzerland
Share: Documentation of the Tired and Scarred Wooden Ifugao Traditional Houses in Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines
Share: Lesser-Known Wood Species & Appropriate Technology: Two Keys to Sustainable Artisan Woodworking
Share: Wood Used In Construction Of Indigenous Traditional Houses in Ifugao, Philippines Using The Triangulation Method
Share: How do trees grow upright?
Share: Enhancing tree growth and wood production with plant hormones
Share: Recent Progress on The Formaldehyde Emission from Bonded-Wood Products
Share: Particleboard: A New Feed Stock from Tropical Rapid Growth and Aggressive Coppicing
Share: Research of Wood Shape Memory Effect at Low Temperatures
Share: Liquefaction of lignocellulosic biomass and its applications for wood adhesives
Share: Valorization of beech wood through the development of innovative and environmentally friendly chemical modification treatments
Share: Richter K, Windeisen E, Özparpucu M 2021: Interactions of wood extractives and structural wood adhesives and their effects on wood bonding performance
Share: Valuing Wood by Design -protecting our assets for the next generation
Share: Japanese Wood and Carpentry
Share: An unique, effective, bio-based termiticide microemulsion solutions for aboveground protection of Malaysian native hardwoods against Coptotermes termite threats in buildings and outdoors
Share: Climatic value of Thule architectural wood remains from northwestern Alaska (AD 850-1650): a dendroarchaeological approach
Share: Treatability and dimensional stability of impregnated woods
Share: Stockmühle revisited – Reconstruction of a historical watermill during the WWD 2019
Share: Wood Identification: A Tool For Preservation Of Indigenous Architecture Of Traditional Houses In Ifugao, Philippines
Share: Fire resistance of surface charred beech wood
Share: Structural System of Historical Log Architecture
Share: Theoretical Foundation of “Aesthetic Wood Culture” Model
Share: Wood and the cult of Tree in the nomadic space of Kalmyks
Share: Keynote - Wood Knowledge for Future Generation
Share: Teaching Furniture in a New World: How wood/furniture teachers around the world have adapted their teaching as a response to pandemic
Share: Elevating Women Woodland Owners in Forest Stewardship
Share: Effects of Abelmoschus esculentus pod extract on hyperlipidemia in humans
Share: Incense Culture in the Past, Present and the future
Share: Cultural and Symbolic importance of Ficus Religiosa L. in India
Share: Community Forest Management: A Direct-Market Strategy for a Triple Bottom Line
Share: Connecting the Dots: Building a Sustainable Supply Chain from Forest to Market
Share: Towards strengthening the role of research and best practice in decision making
Share: Synthesis Of Cationized Cellulose From Pine Needles And Application In Paper Making

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WWD 2021, Symposium, Virtual, CO2 & Wood
WWD 2021, Symposium, Virtual, CO2 & Wood
WWD 2021, Symposium, Virtual, CO2 & Wood

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