Timber Industry & Forest Management Section

Section responsibilities

• Wood Resource Policy, wood promotion through the Aktionsplan Holz (Wood Action Plan) and the WWald- und Holzforschungsförderung (WHFF-CH) (Forest and Wood Research)
• Contribution of wood to other sectoral goals, e.g. energy, climate, circular economy
• Forestry sector monitoring and reporting
• Enforcement of the timber regulation
  
• Forestry sector (including infrastructure)
• Forest and wood value chain
• Wood monitoring and reporting
• Swiss National Forest Inventory NFI and wood harvesting potential
• Life cycle assessment wood
• CO2 and wood products
• Wood communications
• Wood research
• Wood energy
• Economic aspects

Topic:

Topic Forest and timber

Personnel

Alfred W. Kammerhofer
Position: head of section
Responsibilities: Innovations in the forestry and timber industry, Wood Resource Policy, wood forum, forest economics
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Christian Aebischer
Responsibilities: wood research and promotion, use of timber in construction and renovation, CO2 sink effect of wood products
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Matthias Biolley
Responsibilities: Forest economics incl. infrastructure, forest/wood economy monitoring (forestry statistics, TBN test network), wood energy / national economic supply
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Ulrike Krafft
Responsibilities: Wood Resource Policy, co-programming of the Aktionsplan Holz (Wood Action Plan)
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Marjo Kunnala
Responsibilities: National Forest Inventory (NFI), forestry statistics on timber harvesting, wood utilisation potential in Swiss forests, CO2 sink effect of wood
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Sonja Luginbühl
Responsibilities: Bases for monitoring timber industry and forest management, course administration (health and safety and training), forest investment credit support
Tel.: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Sylvan Pavonet
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Fabian Reusser
Responsibilities: Enforcement of Timber Trade Ordinance, IT software maintenance and support, wood species identification
Tel: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail]

Achim Schafer
Responsibilities: Wood trade regulation (EUTR/CHTR, AOC, duty to declare), timber market, wood monitoring
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Claire-Lise Suter Thalmann
Responsibilities: Co-director of programming for the Aktionsplan Holz (Wood Action Plan), wood communications, wood energy
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Further information

Links

[e-mail]

Map Worblentalstrasse 68, 3063 Ittigen

Further information

Tel: [phone]

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Forest Division
CH-3003 Bern

Worblentalstrasse 68
3063 Ittigen

Last modification 11.07.2022