Further news 2023 - 2014

How do carbon pools in German forests and forest products develop over time? Which impact do have forest management, change of market conditions and an altered national energy mix on these carbon pools?

The R&D joint project "Climate protection in small private forests – for owners and society (KKEG)", funded by the Forest Climate Fund, presented its key findings to more than 70 participants at an expert workshop on January 11th, 2018 in the HdLE (Haus der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft) in Berlin.…

Jobst-Michael Schröder elected Vice-Chair of ITTO’s Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management

Since November Eliza Zhunusova is member of our team in the department ‘Forestry Worldwide’.

The Thünen-Research award, offered by the association of the friends of the Thünen Institute (GdF), went to a team of authors from the three Thünen-Institutes of Forest Ecosystems (WO), Wood Research (HF) and International Forestry and Forest Economics (WF) for their article on "Costs and carbon…

At the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics a new position was created, aiming to analyse the consequences the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) has on illegal logging worldwide and timber markets.

Memoranda of Understanding for the collaboration within the project LaForeT have been signed with local and international partners from Zambia.

Genevieve Mortimer worked at the Thünen-Institute for International Forestry and Forest Economics from 15 April 2013 to 31 October 2016 in a project on sustainability assessment on company level. She now concluded her thesis titled "Unintended consequences: business challenges, implications and…

On October 26, 2017, a status seminar of the research project „WaVerNa“ took place in Berlin with about 50 participants.

Within their study journey in Germany the Japanese scientists Dr. Mitsukaki Yamagata und Yuichi Ikuta from the Forest Economic Research Institute and the Japan Woody Bioenergy Association, Tokyo visited the Thünen Centre of Competence on the Origin of Timber on 22nd of September 2017.