Issue No. 3 December 1998

Contents

• INFORMATION

• EDITORIAL

• SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Unified wood energy terminology (UWET)
  • Forestry department task force on the role of forestry in carbon sequestration
  • Biomass as an energy substitute for fossil fuels or a sink for sequestering carbon -implications for the Kyoto Protocol
  • Outcome and follow-up of the IPPCC/SBSTA meetings hosted by FAO
  • World Energy Council Congress



• NEWS AND NOTES

  • Telefood
  • Household energy, smoke and health
  • Forestry, Farm and Community Tree Network (FACT Net)
  • European Agriculture and Forestry Biomass Network
  • Smog-eating trees
  • Daimler-benz - Department of Renewable Energies
  • FAO´s Young Professionals Programme
  • Wood Energy Textbook
  • Carbonisation: méthode simple et efficace
  • Biomass energy and coffee processing
  • Green energy update
  • New terminology discussion group
  • And have you heard about ...



• FOCUS ON ... BRAZIL

• COUNTRY COMPASS

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  • Cameroun
    
  • Croatia
    
  • Gabon
    
  • Honduras
    
  • India
    
  • Nicaragua
    
  • Pakistan
    
  • Romania
    
  • Sri Lanka
    
  • Thailand
    



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