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Role of Canada’s Forest Sector for Economic Development and Climate Change Mitigation

We are pleased to invite you to a Webinar on the Role of Canada’s Forest Sector for Economic Development and Climate Change Mitigation, to be held November 10, 2021 (from 1:00 – 2:15 EST or 10:00 – 11:15 PST).  This webinar is organized by the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan – CFS), with support from FPInnovations.  The webinar builds on the CAE series of Net-Zero Webinars presented over the last year.

The webinar will feature presentations from three speakers with extensive forest sector experience and involvement:

Diane Nicholls
(Assistant Deputy Minister and British Columbia Chief Forester; Diane is an award-winning Registered Professional Forester with the mission of “Caring for BC’s Forests“)

Werner Kurz
(NRCan – CFS Senior Research Scientist, and leader of Canada’s National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System, and the Wildfire and Carbon Project of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions; Werner has co-authored eight reports of the IPCC and published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers)

Warren Mabee
(Canada Research Chair in Renewable Energy Development and Implementation, Queen’s University, and Director of the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy; Warren’s specialty is in bioenergy technology and policy)

Details about the program can be found here.

Register in advance for this webinar here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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