Course Overview
Canada is a world leader in how it manages its forests. This presentation will look at how sustainable forest management is more critical than ever as our country deals with the impacts of climate change and focuses on protecting biodiversity and carbon-rich peatlands and wetlands. Forestry and forest products solutions will be critical to Canada’s ability to achieve a net-zero carbon economy by 2050 – and so we can keep families, communities, and critical infrastructure safer from more catastrophic fires and have healthy and resilient forests for future generations.
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Speaker Bio
Derek Nighbour
President & CEO
Forest Products Association of Canada
Derek was born and raised in Pembroke – in the heart of the Ottawa Valley – and has been President and CEO at FPAC since March 2016. He is proud to represent Canada’s forest products sector and its workers, families, and communities nationally and internationally. Prior to joining FPAC, Derek served for over 7 years as Senior Vice President with Food & Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC), the country’s leading voice for consumer goods manufacturers like Coca-Cola, McCains, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. Derek also served for over 3 years as Senior Vice President of Public Affairs with Retail Council of Canada (RCC) representing over 45,000 retail storefronts across Canada, including leading retailers like Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Staples, and Home Hardware. Derek was recently appointed as an advisor to the United Nations Forum on Forests and is the Past-President of the International Council of Forest & Paper Associations (ICFPA) – an organization of forest sector leaders from 28 countries around the world.