This conference will focus on the potential impacts of bioenergy and avoided deforestation on tropical landscapes. The discussion will be driven by questions such as: Can global policies like reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation effectively abate tropical deforestation? Will the growing interest in bioenergy pose a threat to tropical forest conservation? Is bioenergy a tool for tropical forest conservation or a catalyst of its destruction? And are biofuel production and avoided deforestation compatible?  

dates: 27-29 March 2008  
location: New Haven, Connecticut, US  
contact: Yale Chapter of the International Society for Tropical Foresters  
e-mail: YaleISTF@gmail.com  
www: http://www.yale.edu/istf/