Fair For Forestry: International Sustainable Forest & Natural Capital Investment Conference 2025
Foire / salon
Fair For Forestry: International Sustainable Forest & Natural Capital Investment Conference 2025
Foire / salon
Mardi 25 Mar 2025 > Jeudi 27 Mar 2025
Tuesday : 8h50 - 17h00 / Wednesday : 8h50 - 19h15 / Thursday : 8h50 - 18h30Cercle Cité Place d’Armes I B.P. 267 I L-2012 Luxembourg
The Luxembourg AgriBusiness Association is hosting a major three-day fair. The event will feature a seminar on March 25, followed by a two-day conference on March 26 and 27. It is organized in partnership with DANA New Zealand, whose Director, Dennis Neilson, will deliver the opening speech on the morning of March 25. The event will address global investors in forestry, biodiversity private financing, carbon credits, trees, and natural capital.
Seminar:
| Registration opens | ||
| 0850-0900 | Seminar opens - Welcome & Housekeeping | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ, New Zealand |
| 0900-0930 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Logs | Rocky Goodnow, Director, Forest Economic Advisors, USA |
| 0930-1000 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Sawn Timber | Diego Benedetti, Economic Affairs Director, European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) Brussels, Belgium |
| 1000-1020 | The European Wood-Based Panels market | Orifjon Abidov , Senior Economist, European Panel Federation, Belgium |
| 1020-1050 | Coffee Break | |
| 1050-1120 | Biomass Continued: Charcoal and Biofuels -- Implications for wood fibre demand - and Q&A | Juan Prados, Director General, Generadi, Spain |
| 1120-1150 | Torrefied Pellets and Carbonised Biomass: A future Coal Replacement for Power Generation and Steelmaking: The Role of Woody Biomass as a Raw Material. | Michael Wild, President International Biomass Torrefaction & Carbonisation Council (IBTC), Austria |
| 1150-1220 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Pulp & Impact on Wood Fiber Demand | Inkeri Nuutinen, Consultant, AFRY Management Consulting, Finland |
| 1220-1300 | Working Lunch - with luncheon presentation about the new Luxembourg Skypark Business Centre Mass Timber Construction Project | Luxembourge Skypark Builder, Skypark Builder |
| 1300-1330 | Where China goes, so does global wood products trade go: Predictions of China demand for softwood log and sawn timber - and both hardwood and softwood woodchip imports: 2025, 2029 and 2034 | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ Ltd, New Zealand |
| 1330-1400 | Mass Timber: The Key to a Sustainable Building Future - A Global Overview (or an alternative title to suit) | Charline Lefèvre, Project Engineer, Ney & Partners WOW, Belgium |
| 1400-1430 | Seedlings to Solutions: Connecting the Dots Between the Timber Supply Chain and Mass Timber Buildings — A Forester and Developer's Perspective. A Case study. | Troy Harris, Director, Jamestown, USA |
| 1430 | Seminar ends | |
| 1415-1700 | Field Trip to Luxembourg Skypark Business Centre [subject to host approval] | |
| Mass Timber Construction Project |
Conference 1:
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 700 | Registration Desk Open | |
| 0850-0900 | Conference Opens - Welcome and House Keeping | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ, New Zealand |
| 0900-0910 | Luxembourg Agribusiness Association: An introduction | Philippe Durey, President Luxembourg Agribuisness Association (LuxAA), Luxembourg |
| 0910-0920 | Opening Address | |
| 0920-0930 | How domestic and international forestry and wood processing investment can enhance a country's economy and environment: A New Zealand Case Study | The Honourable Todd McClay, New Zealand Minister of Trade, Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting & Fishing; Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand |
| 0930-1000 | The role of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Agriculture and Natural Capital Investment | Mrs Vigliotti, Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Capital, European Investment Bank |
| 1000-1030 | TBC | |
| 1030-1100 | Morning Coffee Break | |
| Theme | The Global Forest Investment Space | |
| 1100-1130 | International Forest Investment - An overview: 1. Where are institutional investors buying forests, 2. Return expectations, 3. Multi-country Country Forest Investment Attractiveness Ratings and Rankings | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ, New Zealand |
| 1130-1200 | How is the Emergence of Natural Capital Investments Reshaping the Forest Investment Asset Space | Portfolio for the Future | Dr. Chung-Hong Fu, Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis, Timberland Investment Resources, USA |
| 1200-1230 | Private Equity Investment Trends -- Including Agribusiness - Forestry | Raphaël Betti, Partner Assurance - Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader, Ernst & Young S.A., Luxembourg |
| 1230-1400 | Lunch | |
| 1400-1430 | Sponsors Presentations | |
| 1430-1500 | The interest of a major International Bank in forestry investment | Sophie Dimopoulou, Head of Distribution Luxembourg & Eastern Mediterranean Countries, BNP Paribas Asset Management and Céline Claudon, Chief Commercial Officer, IWC. |
| 1500-1530 | The development of a forestry portfolio by a major European/International industrial company: Why does Europe feature so heavily? | Andriy Hrytsyuk, Forestland Portfolio Manager · Ingka Group (former IKEA Group) |
| 1530-1615 | Afternoon Coffee Break | |
| 1615-1645 | The attractiveness of Natural Capital to a major Global Insurance Group – Take-always of investing into forestry & agriculture for 15 years | Hans-Joachim Seyfarth, Head of Illiquid Assets Natural Capital, MEAG MUNICH ERGO Asset Management GmbH, Germany |
| 1645-1705 | What does a Private Family Office Business look to when making investment decisions? Does "sustainability" play a role? | Axel Oddo, Directeur Général, OBE and Partner chez Vasgos France |
| 1705-1725 | The Family Office Angle of Biodiversity Focused Forest Investments | Aleksandra Holmlund, CEO Qarlbo Biodiversity, Sweden |
| 1725-1745 | Q&A for the days presentations | |
| 1745 | Day 1 ends | |
| 1745-1915 | Networking Reception | |
Conference 2:
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 700 | Registration Desk Open | |
| 0850-0900 | Conference Opens - Welcome & House Keeping | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ, New Zealand |
| Theme | Agriculture and Forestry | |
| 0900-0930 | The Role of Forests and Agriculture in an Investment Portfolio | Carl Atkin-House, Head of Natural Capital Strategy, Climate Asset Management, UK |
| Theme | Global Forest Investment - by Regions | |
| 0930-1000 | North America - the largest investible forest market in the World: SE, NE and PNW regions) and its role in growing Natural Capital | Troy Harris, Director, Jamestown, USA |
| 1000-1020 | Europe (Nordic/Scandinavia-Baltics, UK and Iberia) | Tapani Pahkasalo, Partner DASOS Capital, Finland |
| 1020-1040 | France | Lionel Kiesmann, Ingénieur Forestier, Racines, France |
| 1040-1100 | The untapped potential of South East Europe as a forest investment region | Daniel Paul Dima, Managing Partner, Porini Log Oy, Finland |
| 1100-1130 | Coffee Break | |
| 1130-1200 | Forest investing in Latin America | Esben Brandi, Head of Business Development, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, Denmark |
| 1200-1230 | What attracts so many international Companies, Asset Managers and Private Family interests to invest in Forestry (and in Agriculture) in Oceania? | David Gardner, Chief Investment Officer, Forestry Gresham House, UK |
| 1230-1300 | Forest investing in Africa: Is a Different Approach Required? | Ole Sand, Managing Partner, Criterion Africa Partners, USA |
| 1300-1400 | Lunch | |
| Theme | Secondary Markets | |
| 1400-1420 | The opportunity to invest in (Global) forest fund markets through "Secondary Offerings" | Stephen Addicott, Managing Partner, Stafford Capital Partners, UK |
| Theme | Forests and Sustainability/Carbon Offsets/Credits | |
| 1420-1445 | A Legal/Investor perspective of the new EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and other EU legislation that forest investors and wood importers should be aware of | Sara Nordin, Partner, White Case LLP, Brussels |
| 1445-1515 | Climate change risks and opportunities for European timberland investment | Darius Sarshar, Principal, Europe SLM Partners, UK |
| 1515-1540 | The opportunities to invest in forestry for carbon credits - A major Asset Managers perspective | Arnaud Filhol, CEO, France Valley Asset Management, France |
| 1540-1600 | Forestry 3.0: Preparing for the 3rd age of forestry | Keith Lamb, Senior Associate Margules Groome and Lecturer, Scottish School of Forestry, UK |
| 1600-1615 | New Products-Funds-Projects Panel | Claudio Braidotti, Chief Investment Officer, CarbonPool, Switzerland |
| 1615 | End of Conference | |
| 1615-1700 | Delegates tour of the nearby Palace of the Duke of Luxembourg | |
| 1700-1830 | Optional: Financial Networking Reception - Delegates and invited guests from the Luxembourg financial community | |