Forests, food and climate change
How forests and food production contribute to the climate change? Forests as carbon sinks, forests in the energy production and especially forests in the production of fuels that substitute fossil fuels. The role of forests in the production of food. The global change of paper and pulp industry. New high value-added products from the forests. Forests, food and non-food products in the use of land. How to manage the global challenge of limited water resources? Technological challenges: gene technology, new material technology, harvesting technologies, nanotechnology
Short title:
Climate change
Start date:
2007-09
End date:
2011-02
Project leader:
Committee for the Future of the Parliament of Finland (ComFuture)
Country:
FL

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