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Friday, 25 November 2011
Conference "Green Carbon: the forests and the carbon capture cycle in wood"
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 Today at the Auditório do Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon the "Green Carbon: the forests and wood in the carbon capture cycle", Conference is taking place.bringing together experts in forestry and architecture, researchers and consultants in the areas of forest, environment, management and sustainable development.
This initiative, promoted by Sonae Industria and Ciência Viva is based on three master-keys to decrease the CO2 emissions into the atmosphere: Research, Industry and Innovation.
The importance of preserving indigenous forest, the forest management of production and recycling of wood with the goal of developing strategies and solutions to combat climate change, contributing to the existence of "green" carbon, are the main topics for discussion.
Participating at the conference are: Nuno Lacasta, Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Climate Change, Portuguese Carbon Fund and FCT-UNL, Fernando Barriga, from the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, Cristina Mágoas, from the Centre for Environmental Biology, University of Lisbon, João Neves da Silva, from the Centre for Forestry Research at the Institute of Agronomy, Joana Paulo Amaral, from the Forestry Department at the Institute of Agronomy, Alberto Tavares, COO of the Iberian Peninsula from Sonae Industria, Paulo Bessa, Director of Sustainability at Corticeira Amorim, and Pedro Ribeiro , Consultant for the Environmental Certification of Healthy Buildings. The speaker panel is completed with the participation of Werner Frank, expert consultant in the analysis of the life cycle of timber and building materials and expert accredited by the CEI-Bois for the analysis of sustainability of buildings and EPD (Environmental Product Declarations).
The conference "Green Carbon: the forests and wood in the carbon capture cycle" is part of the celebrations of the International Year of Forests and the Science and Technology Week 2011
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