40th Anniversary of ICP Forests - Celebration Event

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On the pulse of European Forests

40 years of pan-European forest monitoring, from air pollution to climate change

12:00 - 13:30 // Registration

13:30 - 14:00 // Opening with welcome addresses by the Chairperson of ICP Forests, hosts and the President of the Thünen Institute

14:00 - 15:00 // European forests from air pollution to climate change

• Smoke damage and forest decline in the Ore Mts.: the early days (Henning Andrae, Sachsenforst)
• Unraveling forest responses to climate change: Recent insights and innovative approaches (Charlotte Groissord, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
• The role of monitoring and research in combating air pollution (TBC: Anna Engleryd, Senior officer at the Nordic Council of Ministers and former chair of the EB of the UNECE Air Convention)

15:30 - 16:40 // Looking back to move forward

• Pan-European Forest monitoring among expectations, disillusionment, and new enlightenment - the ICP Forests story (Marco Ferretti, Chairperson of ICP Forests, WSL)
• The future of forest monitoring (Alessandro Cescatti, Joint Research Center, European Commission)
• Tales from ICP Forests (podium discussion with former key persons of the ICP Forests)

16:40 - 17:00 // Closing (Andreas Bolte, Thünen Institut, Eberswalde, Germany)

18:00 Reception