The issues will be discussed all through the Working Group meetings. The preliminary list of several key issues could be read below.
- Land-use changes and management,
- Wood products as carbon stocks,
- Substitution effects (products, energy),
- Biomass production for bio-energy.
Regarding stocks and flows:
- Synthesis of UNFCCC carbon accounts at the national level
- Models simulating carbon stocks and flows
- Methods and parameters;
- Temporary/permanent carbon credits;
- Leakage and additionallity.
Year 1: State of knowledge = one report / country
Year 2 & 3: Work on key issues
| Year 4: | Guidelines and recommendations for managers |
| Identification of needs in the future researches and development projects |
And throughout the duration of the action: updating the national reports
| Country | Name | Organization | Email |
| Lithuania | Rasa Buozyte | Lithuanian Forest Research Institute | r.buozyte@mi.lt |
| Czech Republic | Emil Cienciala | IFER - Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research | emil.cienciala@ifer.cz |
| Ireland | Paul Gardiner | University College Dublin | Paul.Gardiner@UCD.ie |
| Netherlands | Thomas Groen | International Institute for Geo-Information and Earth Observation | groen@itc.nl |
| Hungary | Laszlo Jager | University of West Hungary | jagerla@emk.nyme.hu |
| United Kingdom | Maria Nijnik | The Macaulay Institute | m.nijnik@macaulay.ac.uk |
| Finland | Jari Parviainen | Finnish Forest Research Institute(Metla) | jari.parviainen@metla.fi |
| Poland | Piotr Paschalis Jukubowicz | University of Life Sciences. Faculty of Forestry | Piotr.Paschalis@wl.sggw.pl |
| Croatia | Sanja Perić | Forest Research Institute | sanjap@sumins.hr |
| Serbia | Andrej Pilipovic | Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment | andrejpilipovic@yahoo.com |
| Slovak Republic | Tibor Priwitzer | NFC-FRI | priwitzer@nlcsk.org |
| France | Nicolas Robert | Inventaire forestier national | nicolas.robert@nancy.inra.fr |
| Spain | Roque Rodriguez Soaillero | Escuela Politécnica Superior | roquers@lugo.usc.es |
| Greece | Gavriil Spyroglou | spyroglou@fri.gr | |
| Estonia | Veiko Uri | Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering | veiko.uri@emu.ee |
| Netherlands | Ernst van der Maaten | Institute for Forest Growth, University Freiburg | ernest.van-der-maaten@iww.uni-freiburg.de |
| Bulgaria | Tzvetan Zlatanov | Forest Research Institute | tmzlatanov@gmail.com |
| Finland | Aleksi Lehtonen | Finnish Forest Research Institute | aleksi.lehtonen@metla.fi |