Special Lecture Presentation:

The Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communications Program of the School of Environment and Sustainability and the Bateman Centre for Environmental Education and Communication

Special Lecture Presentation: Transforming Canada’s Forestry Sector - The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement: Collaboration and Partnership; the 21st Century Business Model

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and nine leading environmental organizations, unveiled an unprecedented agreement on May 18, 2010 that applies to 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC members. The Agreement, when fully implemented, will conserve significant areas of Canada’s Boreal Forest, protect threatened woodland caribou and provide a competitive market edge for participating companies.

This world-leading collaborative Agreement sets Canada’s forest industry apart from the rest of the world, and clearly signifies a paradigm shift in 21st century business practices. This Agreement ultimately provides others in Canada and around the globe with the opportunity to learn how to develop, and structure, a collaborative approach to finding solutions that meet both environmental and economic objectives.

Presenters will review the two year process of collaborative negotiations, and discuss the implementation objectives that encompass a “whole-cloth” approach to managing the interwoven aspects of the global environment and the economy.

Speakers:

Avrim Lazar is President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, since Jan. 1, 2002. He also chaired the National Business Association Roundtable and is the Past-President of the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA). Mr. Lazar has held senior policy positions in the government of Canada in the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Environment and Human Resource Development. During this period he was responsible for national policy in areas as diverse as climate change, biodiversity, child poverty, employment insurance and labour force training.

Mr. Lazar was Chair of the Committee of the Whole of the Second UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995. Mr. Lazar taught high school in Vancouver and Zambia from 1969 to 1973. Over the years, Mr. Lazar has given many courses in the graduate studies programs at the University of Ottawa and Carleton
University. Mr. Lazar holds degrees in science and education, including a B.Sc (1968) from McGill University, a B.Ed (1970) and a PhEd in Ed (1976) from the University of Ottawa.

Mr. Lazar has four children.

Lorne Johnson has fifteen years of experience in multi-stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building working with resource industries, government, NGOs, local communities and First Nations. Lorne successfully coordinated the development of regional and national corporate social responsibility standards for Canada’s forest sector for the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) international eco-labelling system between 1996 and 2005. More recently, Lorne led World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) government relations efforts in Ottawa representing the organization on a diversity of files including climate change, oceans management and energy policy. Lorne has a track record of proactively helping industry, government and NGOs find practical solutions to sustainability challenges. Lorne holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University, and a Masters of Science, Forestry, from the University of Toronto. He is now a Principal in the Boxfish Consulting Group and is based in Ottawa.
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The presentation is sponsored by the Royal Roads University, School of Environment and Sustainability and the Bateman Centre for Environmental Education and the Arts as part of the annual Robert Bateman Lecture Series.

Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Time: 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Place: Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.