Forest Ecosystem Services and Silviculture Section

Section responsibilities

• Providing a basis for safeguarding and valorising forest services
• Analysing chances, risks and measures for near-natural silviculture that arise from climate change
• Promoting forest education
• Coordinating research and knowledge transfer on forests and timber
• Arranging for the practical application of the results from monitoring
• Providing a technical and strategic basis for international forestry and timber policy

Section topic:

Topic Forest and timber

Personnel

Clémence Dirac Ramohavelo
Position: Co-head of Section
Responsibilities: Safeguarding and valorising forest ecosystem services (leisure and recreation), education, forestry research, urban forestry
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Christoph Dürr
Position: Co-head of Section
Responsibilities: International forestry and timber policy, domestic implementation of international commitments, silviculture and adaptation to climate change
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Keith Anderson
Responsibilities: Global and regional forest-related negotiations, such as UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), FAO, Forest Europe
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Thomas Bettler
Responsibilities: Forest monitoring, Forest geodata unit
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Robert Jenni
Responsibilities: Silviculture, forest adaptation to climate change, supervision internships of the Forest Division
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Gerda Jimmy
Responsibilities: Promotion of forest-related competence (Forestry education, knowledge transfer), forests and health
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Jean-Laurent Pfund
Responsibilities: Maintaining, evaluating and valorising forest ecosystem services (carbon sequestration, drinking water filtration), forest ecosystem services at the international level
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Nele Rogiers
Responsibilities: Climate reporting with greenhouse gas balance of forests, certified UNFCCC reviews, support for national forest research
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Last modification 04.01.2022