Bioeconomy in our daily life- webinar: "Climate change, damaged wood, falling prices: with bioeconomy out of the crisis"

In 2019, up to 10 million solid cubic meters of damaged wood were incurred in Austria. This corresponds to almost half of the total harvest and brings with it a lot of challenges. One example of this is the Austrian Federal Forests, which this year suffered damage of 42.1 million euros due to reduced earnings and additional costs from beetle prevention and timber harvesting. In the future, too, an increase in second-quality wood is to be expected, which will risk remaining in the forest and thus become a challenge for forestry. Climate change is making its contribution, but also the conversion of the forest to more hardwood – which produces more second-quality wood than softwood – is leading to an increase.

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AGENDA – September 3rd at 10:00-11:30 CET

Austria’s forest: Developments and potential according to the Austrian forest inventory
- Alexandra Freudenschuß, Institute for Forest Inventory, BFW – Federal Research Center for Forest
Reshaping the forest-based bioeconomy: products and solutions (English)
- Virpi Korhonen, Executive Director of the New Wood Project, Finland
Wood gasification as an option for dealing with damaged wood, oil-free agriculture and natural gas substitution
- Christoph Pfemeter, Managing Director of the Austrian Biomass Association
Discussion

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This webinar gives you the opportunity to discuss with experts from Austria and Finland about bioeconomy as a possible driver towards sustainable forestry. From the bathtub produced of wood chips to diesel fuel from damaged wood: All of this can be found within the European bioeconomy!