International Conference BIOMASS IN FUTURE LANDSCAPES -

Sustainable Use of Biomass and Spatial Development

March 31st to April 1st, 2009, Press and visitor center (located at the Federal Press Office), Berlin/Germany

Conference moderation: Michaela Küfner (DW-World)

Day 1: March 31st, 2009

• 10.00 amCheck in
• 11.00 am
  Opening - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kaltschmitt
  (German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ))
• 11.15 am
  Opening Speech - Wolfgang Tiefensee (German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS))
• 11:40 am
  "DBFZ - Competence Center for Bioenergy"
  Ilse Aigner, Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV)
• 12.00 pmLunch Break
• 13.00 pm
  Keynote Speaker - Prof. em. Dr.Dr.h.c. Wolfgang Haber, Chair of Landscapes Ecology TU München, Weihenstephan - Sustainability, Landscape, Nature Conservation - Similarities and Contradictions
• 1.30 pm
  Session 1: Political Aims and Requirements of Biomass Production
  

  • Dr. Josef Schmidhuber (FAO): Bioenergy vs. Food Demand - Requirements for Global Agricultural Policy
  • Michael Carus (nova-Institute, Hürth): Material Utilization of Energy Crops in Germany: Status quo, area competition, future potentials and basic conditions
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert (DIW Berlin): Chances and Risks of Bioenergy in Context of Rising Energy Demand
  • Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel (Federal Agency of Nature Conservation, Bonn): Sustainable Use of Biomass - Synergies and Threats with regard to Landscape and Nature Conservation issues

  Resumée of Session 1
• 3.30 pmCoffee Break
• 4.00 pm
  Session 2: Biomass Potentials - Resources and Landscape Effects

  • Prof. Dr. Andre Faaij (University Utrecht, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development): Global Biomass Potentials
  • Dr. Bernd Uwe Schneider (GFZ Potsdam): Agroforestry systems - A new landuse option for the production of biomass in the temperate zone
  • Prof. Suani Coelho (CENBIO): Current and Future Biomass Utilization in Brazil and the Effect of Landscape Utilization
  • Dr. Nicolas Vuichard (LSCE France): Abandoned croplands land for bioenergy in the former USSR - Potentials and Environmental Impacts
  • Prof. Dr. Christina von Haaren (Leibniz University Hannover): Environmental Impacts of Biomass Production - Demands on Landscape Planning

  Resumée of Session 2
• 6.00 pm End of Conference
• 7.30 pm

  Evening event at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS)

  Opening - Ulrich Kasparick (Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs)

  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher, Research Institute for Application-Oriented Knowledge Processing (FAW), Ulm:
  Globalisation and Sustainable Development - to the critical role of biomass production

  Dinner and Musical Entertainment "MaxExpress"

Day 2: April 1st, 2009

• 9.00 amIntroduction/ Summary of the Results of Day 1
• 9.30 am
  Session 3: Regional Biomass Markets

  • Dr. Daniela Thrän (DBFZ, Leipzig): National and Global Biomass Markets (Bioenergy/Food)
  • Michael Deutmeyer (Choren Biomass, Hamburg): Commercialisation of short rotation coppice (SRC) - Key issues of the economical success for SRC in Germany
  • Prof. F. D. Yamba (Research Institute Sambia): Integrated approach for well informed biofuel policy and business Decisions
  • Dr. Chiew Wei Puah (Malaysian Palm Oil Board): Current and Future Production of Palmoil in Malaysia
  • Dr. Manfred van Eckert (GTZ): Sustainable large scale Ethanol production with smallholders? A sustainable development oriented alternative to the Brazilian industrial cane production model.

  Resumée of Session 3
• 12.00 pm Lunch Break
• 1.00 pm
  Session 4: Impacts of Biomass Production - Consequences for Spatial Planning

  • Prof. Dr. Dietwald Gruehn (Dortmund University of Technology, Faculty of Spatial Planning): Energy from Biomass - A new Challenge for Spatial Planning
  • Dr. Walter A. Pengue (ICO UNGS / GEPAMA UBA Project ALFA AL/EU SUPPORT, Argentina): Global Markets, Agrofuels Production and Consequences for Spatial Planning in Argentina
  • Dr. Angela Karp (Rothamsted Research Institute, United Kingdom): Impacts of Biomass production - Strategies for Optimising the Location of Bioenergy Crop Planting in the United Kingdom
  • Jan Votocek (IURS, Czech Republic): Planning Biomass? Situation in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Helmut Strasser (SIR - Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning & Housing, Austria): Spatial Planning and Increasing Use of Renewable Energy - Discourse in Austria

  Resumée of Session 4
• 3.00 pm Coffee Break
• 3.30 pm
  Final Session: Perspectives for the Development of the Use of Biomass along with Sustainable Spatial Development - What is to Be Done? Panel Discussion (Speakers of each session)

  Resumée of all Sessions

  Closing Words - Dr. Engelbert Lütke Daldrup (State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs)

• 5.00 pm End of the Conference

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