14 June 2007
The chief executive of the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) Catherine Murphy has attended the third CEO Roundtable of the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) held in Shanghai.
The ICPFA is meeting to address issues of common interest including sustainability, climate change and energy.
The roundtable has heard how NAFI influenced the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Emissions Trading to recognise the positive role both forests as carbon sinks and carbon stored in harvested wood products have in dealing with the effects of climate change.
“Australia is among the first countries in the world to recognise the potential for carbon to be stored in wood and ICFPA members are very interested in our views on this,” Murphy said.
Murphy was invited to attend the meeting after NAFI’s impressive role in representing the Business and Industry major group at the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at its meeting in New York last month.
“We were influential at the New York meeting where the UNFF agreed to a Non-Legally Binding Instrument (NLBI), which endorses a global commitment to sustainable forest management,” Murphy said.
Environment focus at A3P forum
‘What's our environment in the year 2030?’ This will be the question addressed by politicians, industry leaders and scientists at the Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P) annual members’ forum in Brisbane on 27-28 June.
Keynote speakers include the Minister for Forestry and Conservation Eric Abetz and Shadow Minister for Forestry Kerry O’Brien.
Sessions will focus on greenhouse and water, plantation resource, markets, education and training and bushfire case studies. Queensland Minister for Primary Industries Tim Mulherin will address the forum dinner on 27 June.
Speakers include Kim Creak, A3P chairman, Evan Rolley, formerly Forestry Tasmania, Brian Farmer, Forestry South Australia, Professor Peter Kanowski, Australian National University, Harley Dale, Housing Industry Association, Robert Eastment, IndustryEdge, and Ian Sedger, Pentarch.
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