Asia and the Pacific Forest Products Workshop: Green Technology for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Extended Abstracts: From the workshop held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 14-16 December 2009
Climate change is a global problem, with global causes and effects. Climate change affects the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people will potentially suffer from hunger, water shortages, and more frequent severe natural disaster such as droughts, typhoons and floods, as the climate changes. Addressing climate change and dealing with the impacts requires urgent efforts by all. The main objective of the workshop was to provide a forum for linking various international, regional and national agencies and institutions dealing with climate change issues in forest products processing and utilization, and to share strategies, experiences and knowledge, related to green forest products technology. This workshop provided the much needed opportunities for individuals and their associated agencies, organizations and networks to build collaborative linkages and better align programmes to capture synergies. Various organizations, including IUFRO, were able to take this opportunity to assess capacity-building needs in terms of research and extension related to green forest products research, development and utilization in the Asia-Pacific region. Green Technology for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; Dave Cown; Biofuel – A Green Energy Option for Mitigating Humanitarian Crisis of Climate Change; Anoja Wickramasinghe; Status of Green Manufacturing Practices among Southeast Asian Wooden Furniture Manufacturers; Jegatheswaran Ratnasingam and Florin Ioras; Issues of Formaldehyde Emission From Wood Composite Products of Malaysia; Koh MP and Rahim Sudin; Tannin Resorcinol Formaldehyde as Potential Glue for Plybamboo Manufacture; Adi Santoso and Yusuf Sudo Hadi; Liquefaction Technique of Woody Biomass Waste and Application for Bio-Based Wood Adhesives; Shinichiro Tohmura; Design and Development of Sawdust Burner for Kiln Seasoning of Timber; D K L K Senadheera and H S Amarasekera; The Role of Forest Products in Carbon Sequestration, Storage and Conservation in Bhutan; Mani Ram Moktan; Wood Waste Utilization for Wood Composite Industries in Malaysia ;Rahim Sudin; The Possibility of Utilizing Sawdust Wastes as A High Quality Activated Sawdust Charcoal; Gustan Pari, A. and Han Roliadi; Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Practices among Wooden Furniture Manufacturers in Malaysia; Jegatheswaran Ratnasingam and Karl Wagner; Sustainable Harvesting and Value Addition of MAPs In Community Forest in Dolakha, Nepal; Vivek Dhar Sharma and Maneesha Rajbhandari; Role of Neem Tree (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) To Solve Global Problem in Indonesia; Zuraida; Improved Tapping of Philippine Canarium Trees For Manila Elemi: Helping Alleviate Climate Change; A. B. Ella and Emmanuel P. Domingo; Jute: A Raw Material for the Production of Biomaterials; M Sarwar Jahan, Abrar Saeed and Yonghao Ni; Adaptation to Climate Change and Non-Timber Forest Products: An Empirical Study in West Bengal, India; Jyotish Prakash Basu; Bamboo as Green Material – Saves the Forest; Anwar,U.M.K, Hamdan,H, Paridah,M.T, Rahim, S, Mohd Tamizi., M and Siti Rafidah, M; Carbon Sequestration Potential and Uses of Dendrocalamus srictus; Dhruba Bijaya G.C. and Jyoti Bhandari; Social Issues Related to Jatropha Plantation and Processing at Wenshan Prefecture of Yunnan Province; Liu Jinlong and Li Xinlei; Fuelwood Emission and CO2 Mitigation Strategy: A Case Study of Western Himalayas of India; G S Rawat and Rajiv Pandey; Cultivation of Jatropha Seeds to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts in India: An Analysis; Sahana Bose
