FIBRE -FIGARE -PhD Course

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) – two major environmental conventions


Place: University of Turku
Time: April 11th, 2000

Tentative programme
 
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and coffee
Morning session:
9:00– 12:00

Framework Convention on Climate Change and Convention on Biological Diversity

Place: Lecture room XI, Natural Science Building I

9:00 – 9:45

Pirkko Heikinheimo, Ministry of the Environment:
Framework Convention on Climate Change – an ongoing process
Discussion

10:00 – 10:45

Mari Walls, FIBRE-programme
Recent developments in the Convention of Biological Diversity
Discussion

11:00 – 11:45

Jukka-Pekka Jäppinen, Finnish Environment Institute:
Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in Finland: National Action Plan
Discussion

12:00 – 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon session
14:00 – 16:00

Short presentations of research projects carried out in FIBRE and FIGARE projects – PhD students΄ presentations

Place: Lecture room XX, Natural Science Building II

14:00 – 14:15
Celeste Lacuna-Richman, University of Joensuu: Biodiversity in subsistence economies: An overview of non-wood forest product use in three Philippine villages
14:15 – 14:30

Antti Marjokorpi, Stora Enso Forest Consulting Oy Ltd:

Biodiversity management in industrial tree plantations in the tropics: biological, socioeconomic and juridical consequences

14:30 – 14:45

Sanna Mäki, University of Turku, Amazon-project:
Transmitting scientific knowledge to the land use planners by using cartographic methods - Case study: Region of Iquitos, NE, Peru.

14:45 – 15:00
Eriika Melkas, University of Turku: Multinational corporations in the framework of the Kyoto mechanisms
15:00 – 15.15
Pertti Ranta, University of Helsinki:
Biodiversity in urban areas: temporal change and spatial distribution
15:15 – 15.30
Discussion
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE
16:00 – 17:00
FIBRE – FIGARE PhD Club – let’s get started! Why? Who?
Programme director Mari Walls
17:00
Concluding words