This is the first time the event is held in Finland and it aims to increase international influencers’ knowledge about the Finnish forest sector as well as to present the Finnish forest sector’s national success factors in integrating different land uses in forest landscape. Experts in forest, biofuel and agriculture sectors taking part in the event come from, for example, the US, Brazil, Vietnam, Zambia, Cameroon, Indonesia and Europe.
Finnish forest industry operations in Eastern Finland will be presented to the members of The Forests Dialogue group during their visit. On Tuesday 2 September, the group will visit Lappeenranta, Joutseno and Imatra to learn more about the production of wood-based bioenergy as part of the bioeconomy. On Wednesday 3 September, guests will find out more about the Finnish forest economy on a visit to Puumala and Sulkava and they will discuss forest ecosystem services.
The Forests Dialogue, established in 1998, is a global forest sector co-operation forum with a secretariat hosted at Yale University in the US. Its events have been attended by 2,500 leaders from the forest industry, the forest economy, environmental and other NGOs as well as the public sector. The Forests Dialogue’s objective is to support an open, multi-stakeholder dialogue in order to solve disputes related to forests and land use.
