Mitigation Activities in the Forestry Sector in Turkey


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General Directorate of Forestry, Turkey

Location: 223, 2nd floor, Collegium Maius

Forests have an effect on the protection of air, water and soil. As Turkey is currently on the way to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the General Directorate of Forestry has increased emission control activities, which can be listed as follows:

Functional Planning and Implementing
Protection activities (Turkey has about 21.2 million ha. of forest and most of the forests are located in fire sensitive areas.)
Mitigation activities
Training and public awareness activities and Urban Forests
Biomas

Chair: Ismail Belen, Assistant General Director
Time	Title of presentation	Speaker & Institution	File(s)
16:30 – 16:45	Functional Planning	Emine Ataş, Forest Engineer
16:45 – 17:05	From Wood to Energy (Biomass Energy)	Sami Bayçelebi, Forest Industry Engineer
17:05 – 17:25	Mitigation activities in Turkey	Mustafa Çiftçi, Forest Engineer
17:25 – 17:45	Training and public awareness activities	Emine Ataş, Forest Engineer
17:45 – 18:00	Biomass	Mustafa Çiftçi, Forest Engineer

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).