会议时间：3月21-22日
Abstract

The earth contains about one trillion tones of wood, which grows at a rate of 10 billion tones per year. Wood is an eco-friendly and renewable biomaterial for sustainable living. People have used wood for millennia for many purposes, primarily as a fuel or as a construction material for making houses, tools, weapons, packaging, artworks, and paper.

The wood economy is historically the starting point of the civilizations worldwide, since eras perceeding the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. It necessarily preceded ages of metals by many centuries, as the melting of matals was possible only through the discovery of techniques to light fire.

The main source of the wood used in the world is forests and therefore wood industry is known as forest industry also. It (defined as roundwood production, wood processing and pulp and paper) contributed approximately US $ 468 billion or one per cent of global gross value added in 2006, of which pulp and paper represented about 40 per cent. Formal employment provided by forest industry to 14 million people on a sustained basis. Forest industry is extremely important for some developing countries.

The consumption of main wood products (roundwood, sawnwood, Plywood, Veneer, particle, boards, pulp and paper, etc) is expected to increase by 50% to 75% in 2050. Illegal and /or unsustainable logging and harvesting of trees seriously undermine national efforts to improve sustainable forest management in many countries. Rare tree species and those with high value for wood or non-wood forest products are often in dander of becoming locally extinct.

Challenges in balancing social, economic and environmental needs compel us to adopt sustainable forest management to ensure that goods and services derived from forests meet present day needs while at the same time secure their continued availability and contribution to long term development Green economy modeling suggests that just 0.035 per cent of global GDP each year (about US$ 29 billion) of public investment to forest landholders to conserve forest, plus private investment in reforestation, between 2010-2050, could raise value added in wood industry to US$ 0.6 trillion in 2050. 

For addressing market challenges following efforts are needed:
• Catalyzing technological, policy and institutional innovations;
• Researches to develop new products, new designs and quality standerds for efficient marketing; 
• Catalyzing North-South and South-South collaboration for promoting wood trade.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Dina Nath TEWARI
President of Utthan: Centre for Sustainable Development & Poverty Alleviation, India

Dr. Dina Nath Tewari was raised and educated in the Mahatama Gandhi Ashram wardha. While he was given the opportunity to join top civil services, he preferred Indian Forest Service for improving and enhancing natural capital to save the future and prosperity of mankind. 

He served as the Director for Tribal Development and the Director General for Indian Council of Forest Research & Education and formulated National Policies and established a number of institutions for accelerating the impacts of forestry/agroforestry on environmental sustainability and livelihoods security. 

As a Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor for prestigious universities he was responsible for starting forest and environment education for arresting deforestation, using policy, market and community-driven mechanisms. 

As the chairperson of Biodiversity Group of FAO Rome, he promoted “biodiversity conservation as a means for resilience and an option for change.

He served the World Agroforestry Center Nairobi as Member of its Board of Trustees, where the ‘Global Agroforestry Policy’ was drafted under his Chairmanship. This document presented a roadmap for agroforestry.

While heading the Planning Commission of India he realized that sustainable future can be achieved only by inventive manner for which grassroot activism was needed. He created “Utthan” for building a social movement reducing deforestation, degradations pollution and much more. Utthan started “greening India movement” for retaining and enhancing forest cover yielding multiple benefits for biodiversity conservation as well as climate regulation & poverty eradication.

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