Presentation by Ma Hwan-ok, International Tropical Timber Organization at the Nature and Climate Change Pavilion at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015

1. What can be done?
• Reliability of fuel resources as renewable
• Optimization of resources
• Diversity to non fossil fuel
• Carbon trading increasing
• Cleaner technologies developing
Woody biomass from plantations
“Energy wood plantations” from short-
rotation plantations of poplar, Populus spp.,
Willow, Salix spp., Eucalyptus spp,
Bamboo, Jatropha, etc
What are challenges?
• Competition for energy wood plantations
expand into forests vs crops for food
• Some environmental issues vs low
environmental impacts
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Bioenergy Knowledge sharing session of 2015 GLF - 6 Dec 2015
by Ma Hwan-ok (ITTO)
Wood-based renewable energy from plantaJons and
wood residues (1)

2. Opportunities from wood residues
• Availability of resources
• Reduction of residues and wastes
• Reduction in emission
• High market potential
Energy sources from wood residues
• Felling residues from forests
• Industrial wood residues incl. sawdust,
cuttings
• Recycled wood/recycled paper and board
Wood-based energy and green economy
Wood-based resources for bio-energy are now
considered as “asset” with sustainable potential
for CO2 mitigation and as source of income to
support sustainable forest management (SFM)
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Bioenergy Knowledge sharing session of 2015 GLF - 6 Dec 2015
by Ma Hwan-ok (ITTO)
Wood-based renewable energy from plantaJons and
wood residues (2)