Date Time Share Incoming Chair of UN FAO forestry Council says turbo-charging timber and forestry key to achieving ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’ Incoming ACSFI Chair Ross Hampton Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) forestry advisory Council, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’. Mr Hampton, who is also Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), has just been appointed Chair of the UN FAO’s Advisory Council on Sustainable Forest-based Industries (ACSFI).