- Feature
Throughout the General Assembly, it has become clear that most members recognize the ineffectiveness of the existing approach to Controlled Wood risk assessments, whereby companies are responsible for conducting the assessments themselves.
- System updates
Throughout the GA, the CW motions have been repeatedly amended, changed, tweaked and tuned.
- Feature
The last meetings in the 3 chambers took place during Wednesday afternoon.
- Feature
Contribution by FSC-International The first day of formal FSC General Assembly business got underway today in Cape Town as almost 300 delegates (many of them carrying proxies) from more than 70 countries gathered to vote on motions.
- Editorial
News from the FSC General Assembly 2008 - editorial by Søren Dürr Grue, NEPCon. The presentation of the new FSC Market survey on Wednesday morning highlighted the positive development of the FSC brand.
- Feature
Yesterday Alan Knight, founder of Single Planet Living, asked whether the NIs should be in front of the cameras driving the market, or rather in the engine room lobbying politically for the FSC cause.
- Editorial
It's a sligthly boring subject, and quite far from the woods; nevertheless it's important - also in the FSC system. Securing the long-term financial viability of the FSC network may necessitate changes in the system's fee structure.
- Perspective
Interview with Uwe Sayer, Director of FSC-Germany The Baltic I-III projects are jointly implemented by the FSC National Initiatives around the Baltic Sea, led by FSC Germany.
- Feature
Contribution by FSC International - in 2008, the FSC International Center expanded considerably its activities related to smallholders and community-based forests.
- Feature
- Market news
A market survey presented at the Forest Conference shows that almost 75% of the respondents find that FSC certification brings business value to the company. Less that 6% find that it bring them no business value.
- Feature
Contribution by FSC International within the program of the FSC GA 2008, the forest conference sessions began Tuesday morning with welcoming remarks from FSC Board of Directors Chairman Roberto Waack and an update to members from FSC Executive Director Andre de Freitas.
- Feature
Editorial by Søren Dürr Grue, NEPCon While respecting core ILO conventions is mandatory in FSC forest certification, no such requirements are present in the chain of custody rules applying to the rest of the supply chain.
- Feature
Controlled Wood has been one of the key topics during the first days of the FSC General Assembly.
- Perspective
Contribution by FSC International FSC welcomed delegates to the first day of the Forest Conference with opening remarks from FSC Board of Directors Chairman Roberto Waack.
- Feature
“If nobody is happy, but most can accept the result, then we have found at good compromise” said the Executive Director of FSC Andre de Freitas in his opening speech at the FSC general assembly.
- Feature
Prior to the final voting on motions by the FSC General Assembly on Thursday and Friday, all FSC chambers are busy discussing and prioritizing the motions submitted by stakeholders, and already started negotiating with the other chambers.
- Feature
On Monday, Greenpeace released Holding the Line with FSC: Recommendations and progress to date on Certification Body and FSC performance following a critical analysis of a range of ‘controversial certificates’.
- Feature
During a side event held on Monday, the status of the review process for the FSC global Principles and Criteria (P&C) was presented The P&C form the overall framework for all FSC forest management certification worldwide.
- Perspective
What will happen if major NGOs stop supporting FSC? This question was raised by the Scott Poynton, Director of Tropical Forest Trust at the FSC General Assembly.
- Perspective
In the opinion of Alan Smith, Social Program Manager and Network coordination team leader of FSC International, the FSC system needs to deliver more benefits to the small forest operations.