Dr. Joachim Krug is a forest scientist focussing on forest management in climate change. As an employee of a German governmental research institute (Thünen Institute), he was a scientific advisor for the German delegation in climate change negotiations and a member of the expert group on LULUFC of the European Commission. Currently he is working as an advisor for international sustainable forest management projects and as project manager of the research project “Assessment of human-induced impact on forest growth for climate change mitigation”.