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+++ Presentation about Forestry in Suriname by members of SBB, guests at the Institute for World Forestry on 6 June 2012, 15:00-16:30 lecture room H II, Centre for Wood Sciences, Hamburg +++

+++ TOURS 2012 Tackling climate change: the contribution of forest scientific knowledge. International conference on 21-24 May 2012 in Tours, France. Presentation by Dr. Volker Mues: tools for simulating forest mitigation potentials. Poster presentation by Stefanie Poepken: carbon sequestration of urban trees +++

+++Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) interview with Michael Köhl about sustainable financial investments "Nichts für Holzköpfe" on 12 May 2012 +++

+++ New project lauchned at World Forestry! Funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the EU we are part of the FORMIT project: FORest Management Options for enhancing the MITigation potential of European forests +++

+++ Girls Day at the Centre of Wood Science on 26 April 2012 in Hamburg! +++

+++ latest news about the project Improvement of the Economic Sustainability of Natural Forest Management in SURINAME can be found on this webpage now +++

+++ New information flyers about the bachelor and master programme in Wood Science and Technology (German programme) are available +++

+++ WDR Television interview with Michael Köhl about sustainable financial investments "Nachhaltige Geldanlage" in the "markt scanner" magazine on 26 March 2012 +++

+++ NEW BOOK PUBLICATION: Köhl M. Baldauf T. 2012 Resource Assessment Techniques for Continuous Cover Forestry. In: Pukkala T. von Gadow K. (ed.) 2012 Continuous Cover Forestry, Managening Forest Ecosystems. Springer +++

+++ The IPCC Process, a lecture organised for the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS) program of the Klima Campus Hamburg took place at the Centre for Wood Sciences from 28 Feburary to 1 March 2012 +++