- Market news
The Ojon ® Corporation, a Canadian beauty care company within the Estée Lauder Companies, has teamed up with the Rainforest Alliance in order to ensure that the company's use of rare palm nut oil from Honduran rainforests is sustainable and locally beneficial.
- Market news
A survey conducted by FSC-Denmark among companies holding an FSC certificate or logo license confirms the FSC brand as an asset for companies which are marketing and selling FSC certified products.
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Old but still developing: The Begian distillery Leukenheide, founded in1883, can now offer bottles of gin proudly carrying the FSC label.
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A Danish public partnership for green procurement, including the Danish Ministry of Environment and five municipalities, has announced its commitment to demand legal and sustainable timber, starting this year.
- Feature
Barack Obama sends out an important signal by choosing FSC-certified materials for the one million invitations to join his inauguration as president of the USA.
- Feature
Have you ever met a person who would pursue a career in financial business with the ultimate aim of conserving the environment? Well, now you have: Liza Murphy, currently Director of the FSC business unit, FSC Global Support.
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During the period May to September this year NEPCon will be conducting the re-assessments for 20 Lithuanian state forests, covering a total area of close to 500,000 hectares.
- Market news
The UK Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) recently reassessed five certification schemes for compliance with the UK criteria for the legality and sustainability of timber.
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In collaboration with the Danish Forest Contractors' Association and the Danish Forestry Extension, NEPCon is launching the project "Contractor Certification - a shortcut to certifying small scale forestry operations".
- System updates
The PEFC Council has approved a new standard for PEFC logo usage.
- Market news
Should forests be part of the next climate protocol, should there be a parallel protocol or should forestry-based carbon credits remain a voluntary option?
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A broader inclusion of tropical forests in certification schemes seems more realistic as indigenous and local communities' land ownership rights are becoming recognized.
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At least 50% of the public purchases in EU countries must fulfil green procurement criteria within the next year. The EU Green Public Procurement criteria are likely to include the FSC and PEFC labels for wood-based products.
- Market news
Russia's Prime Minister Putin has announced a delay in the duty raise on exported logs which would most certainly have caused the import of Russian logs to Finland and other important markets to virtually cease.
- Standard updates
The first Russian national FSC standard has been approved by FSC.
- Standard updates
FSC has sent a draft standard for group forest managers out for public consultation.
- Market news
While the general wood products market is losing ground , the commitment to certification in the marketplace for wood-based products remains strong in Europea as well as North America.
- Market news
The important role of forests as provider of ecosystem services, including mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, is highlighted in two recent press releases from the The Timber Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
- Standard updates
As of 1st of January next year, all FSC chain of custody certified companies will be using the same set of rules: The latest version of the FSC chain of custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004 version 2.1), which is already in force and used by many companies. At the turn of this year, the…