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Source Statistischen Bundesmant Preise and Centre de l Économie du Bois, 2005.

The city lies in the Labe lowlands, in a landscape marked by meadows, deciduous forests and historic canals reminiscent of a big chateau park.

While the vast majority of lowland forest south of the White Mountains is hardwood, many areas have some coniferous trees as well, and in Maine, these often grow at low elevations.

Policy issues influencing forest products markets in 2004 and 2005

This financing was led by corporate groups bidding for the right to exploit mahogany and native hardwood forestry.

They cover rich deciduous forests, bogs, wetlands, seabird localities (including bird cliffs), quarternary geological phenomena and fossil sites.

One of the key market drivers in Europe has been hardwood flooring, which continued to grow steadily in 2004 (graph 6.2.2).

Wood based panels balance in Europe, 2003 2004

Trade disputes between forest sector trading partners, such as the ongoing sawn softwood dispute between the US and Canada, continue to make headlines.

Sawn hardwood balance in CIS, 2003 2004

Jeff Serveau, Canadian Forest Service, Canada

Jukka Tissari, Savcor Indufor, Finland

The city is surrounded by an environment typical to central southern Chile, consisting mostly of plantations of coniferous forests in the midst of a central prairie of deciduous forests, moraines and cones next to the foothills of the Andes.

With low sawn hardwood trade volumes, Turkey's production is for the domestic market, and is based on lower grade hardwoods, poplar plantations and imported logs.

Carl Éric Guertin, Quebec Wood Export Bureau, Canada

Their analysis is based on their Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 2004 and updated with current market developments.

Wood based panels markets, 2004 2005

Ivan Eastin, Director, Center for International Trade in Forest Products, University of Washington, produced the North American analysis.

Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 2004. http www.itto.or.jp.

Secretariat introduction

The Kyoto Protocol came into effect after it was ratified by Russia in 2005, spurring action at several levels of government to target CO2 and methane in emissions reduction programmes and strategies the United States remains steadfast in its opposition to the protocol.

Sawn hardwood balance in North America, 2003 2004

Ben Gunneberg, Pan European Forest Certification Council, Luxembourg

Within the region, there were small increases in 2003 trade within Europe which might drop back in 2004 and within North America the 2003 increase could be stronger in 2004.

Although the hardwoods in the rainforests of the Sumatran rhino are destined for international markets and not widely used in domestic construction, the number of logging permits for these woods has increased dramatically because of the tsunami.

While domestic consumption of softwood roundwood in Russia has increased by 26 since 2001, hardwood roundwood consumption has declined almost 9 over the same time period.

Value added wood products, including engineered wood products Wood raw materials, including wood energy Sawnwood (softwood and hardwood) Panels Paper, paperboard and woodpulp Tropical timber Forest certification and certified forest products markets.

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.

Irena Tomsic, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia

World Hardwoods (www.worldhardwoods.com).

The European continent shows the general characteristics of a region located in the planet's northern hemisphere and has forests with highly differentiated coniferous and non coniferous species which reflect the regional biodiversity and bio climatic wealth of the old Europe.

The division between deciduous and coniferous is more or less equal.

Osamu Hashiramoto, Forestry Department, FAO, Italy

Russell Taylor, R.E. Taylor Associates, Ltd., Canada

Alexander Shalashov, Scientific Institute of Wood Research, Russian Federation

Imports of sawn hardwood into the CIS appear to be insignificant and are often tropical for specific applications.

Eric Hansen, Oregon State University, United States

Tapani Pahkasalo, Savcor Indufor, Finland

Carbon trading and the creation of forest based carbon registries are developing quickly within the EU and globally, with ratification of the Kyoto Protocol helping to stimulate action.

Exports in 2004 by Belarus and the Russian Federation represented 26 of total production.

This includes initiatives by environmental NGOs, the timber trade itself, and research institutions such as the UK's Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House).

quantities of timber products exported to the Union under the FLEGT licensing scheme, according to the relevant HS Heading

Forests and Lakes The department has 140,000 hectares of forests.

In 2004, Russian Federation roundwood exports, at 41.8 million m3, were the highest ever, compared with all the years of the former USSR and Russia, making the Federation the major supplier to international roundwood markets (table 4.3.2).