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THE Forest Products Association of Canada and its members are working with environmental groups in the largest conservation agreement ever signed. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement will collaboratively seek solutions to economic and environmental challenges. “Even with this impressive record, the forest products industry is pledging under its Vision2020 to go even further and improve its environmental credentials by an additional 35% by the end of the decade,” says David Lindsay, president and
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CEO of the association. “Vision2020 also sets a goal of generating an additional $20 billion in economic activity from new innovations and new
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