40th Anniversary of ICP Forests - Celebration Event

­­13:30 - 17:25 at German Museum of Hygiene & 19:00 Reception at Haus an der Keuzkirche

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

• Welcome address from the Chairperson of ICP Forests
• Welcome address from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
• Welcome address from the Saxon State Ministry for Environment & Agriculture
• Welcome address from the Saxon State Forestry Enterprise
• Welcome address from 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 Andreae, 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 (Laurence Rouil, Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and Chair of the EMEP Steering Body under the UNECE Air Convention)

15:00 - 15:30 // Tea & coffee break

15:30 - 17:00 // 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 exchange with former and current key figures of the ICP Forests (Moderator: Anne-Katrin Prescher, Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems. Participants: Richard Fischer, Karin Hansen, Michael Köhl, Hiroyuki Sase, Walter Seidling, Sigrid Strich)

17:00 - 17:15 // Closing (Andreas Bolte, Thünen Institut, Eberswalde, Germany)

17:15 - 17:25 // Group Picture in front of the Hygiene Museum

19:00 Reception with presentation of the Anniversary Report "On the Pulse of European Forests - 40 years of pan-European forest monitoring: From air pollution to climate change" hosted by the Free State of Saxony (Location: Haus an der Keuzkirche; address: An der Kreuzkirche 6, 01067 Dresden)