IBFRA Steering Group (L-R): Florian Kraxner, Rasmus Astrup, Susan Conard, Werner Kurz, Raisa Mäkipää, Helene Genet, Vincent Roy, and Anatoly Shvidenko (L-R) Lukas Mandl, Member of the European Parliament, Martin Eichtinger, Provincial Government of Lower Austria, Maria Patek, Austrian Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT); Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, and Florian Kraxner, IIASA. Cool Forests group picture. Early career scientists from the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA), the International Union of Forest Research Organisations ( IUFRO), and Korea University. Poster exhibition area. Excursion to alpine uplands. Session C1: ‘Cool Forests impacts on the global carbon budget’. Khongor Tsogt. Session chairs (L_R) Andrey Krasovskii and Soja Amber (L_R) Newly elected International Boreal Forest Research Association president Florian Kraxner and Vice-president Raisa Mäkipää.