Climate Thursday: Agriculture, forestry, and shipping
Jørgen E. Olesen, a professor at Aarhus University, is an internationally recognized expert in climate change impacts on agriculture and greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture. He has contributed to the IPCC and various governmental commissions and councils. Jørgen will deliver a lecture on agriculture. Jørgen Bo Larsen, a professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen and professor at Nanjing Forestry University, specializes in forest ecology, genetics, and sustainable forest management. He has played a significant role in advancing close-to-nature forest management in Denmark. Jørgen will give a lecture on forestry. Maria Strandesen, Director and Head of Future Fuels at A.P. Moller - Maersk, is responsible for identifying carbon-neutral fuels for Maersk's fleet. She leads a team of experts guiding Maersk's decarbonization efforts, and she will lecture on shipping.
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08.00 - 08.30
© Foto: Jesper Rais, Aarhus Universitet (jesperrais@au.dk)
Jørgen E. Olesen, Professor, AU.
Jørgen E. Olesen is professor in climate and agriculture at Aarhus University. He is also head of department at Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University. He is recognised as a world leading expert on climate change impacts on agriculture and on greenhouse gases from agriculture and how they may be mitigated. He has contributed as a lead author to the IPCC WG2 and to several governmental commissions and councils, including the Commission on Climate Change Policy and the Ethical Council. He is award highly cited researcher by Clarivate.
Jørgen will give a lecture on agriculture.
08.30 - 09.00
Jørgen Bo Larsen, professor emeritus at University of Copenhagen and professor at Nanjing Forestry University in China.
His research covers silviculture, genetics and forest tree breeding, gene conservation and gene ecology, forest ecology, eco-physiology, provenance research and forest protection with the objective of understanding processes and functions of forest ecosystems to facilitate the development of sustainable forest management approaches. He has been instrumental in developing and applying close-to-nature forest management in Denmark.
He has served on the Board of several international forest research organizations including European Forest Institute (EFI, Board chair), International Forestry Research Center (CIFOR, Board member) and World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF, Board member).
Jørgen will give a lecture on forestry.
09.00 - 09.30
Maria Strandesen is Director and Head of Future Fuels for the Maersk Decarbonization group at A.P. Moller - Maersk. In this role, she leads the team that is responsible for identifying and evaluating different carbon neutral fuels suitable for Maersk s fleet of about 750 vessels. In other words, her team covers the technical subject matter experts that recommends which future fuels Maersk should bet on when decarbonizing their fleet.
Maria will give a lecture on shipping.