In-session workshop on mitigation: Agriculture, forestry and rural development

In-session workshop on mitigation: Agriculture, forestry and rural development

In response to the request of the SBSTA at its twenty-third session, the secretariat organized an in-session workshop on mitigation on the theme: "Agriculture, forestry and rural development".

The workshop was held on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 from 10.00 to 13.00 and 15.00 to 18.00 in the Maritim Hotel, Bonn, Germany.

Agenda

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Topics of the presentations and abstracts

Presenter and topic	Abstract	Presentation
James Shevlin (Australia): Successful approaches to working with the agriculture sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimise the loss of valuable resources	pdf	pdf
Xiongnian Yang (China): Technology needs for promoting rural development and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in China	pdf	pdf
Gert Schultz (Denmark): Modern biomass utilisation	pdf	pdf
Elisabeth Lipiatou (European Commission): Economics of the mitigation potentials in the European agriculture, foresty and land use sector	pdf	pdf
Hilkka Summa (European Commission): Contribution of the EU agricultural policy to climate change mitigation	pdf	pdf
Markku Kanninen (European Community): The contribution of forestry and forests to the objective of the UNFCCC and to sustainable development	pdf	pdf
Frank O'Mara (Ireland): Mitigating farm livestock greenhouse gas emissions in the EU	pdf	pdf
Masahiro Amano (Japan): Promotion of sustainable forest management and the role of biological sequestration under climate change agreements	pdf	pdf
Kenji Iiyama (Japan): Development of greenhouse-gas sink/source control technologies through conservation and efficient management of terrestrial ecosystems	pdf	pdf
A. Jan Verhagen (Netherlands): Costs, benefits and co-benefits of mitigation activities in agriculture and forestry	pdf	pdf
Roger Lincoln (New Zealand): Mitigation opportunities in a temperate agricultural and forestry economy	pdf	pdf
Sandra Brown (United States of America): Methods and techniques for monitoring reductions in GHG emissions from avoiding deforestation	pdf	pdf
Charles W. Rice (United States of America): Agricultural mitigation of greenhouse gases	pdf	pdf
Brian C. Murray (United States of America): Economics of climate change mitigation in forestry, agriculture and land use change: An overview	pdf	pdf
Saudi Arabia		pdf

Chair's report (12 kB)

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