- Feature
GA has begun and nearly 300 delegates from more than 70 countries have arrived in Cape Town to participate in the week’s program.
- 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.
- Feature
A side meeting about FSC certification for mega forestry operations turned into a discussion about whether large concession areas with intact forest landscapes are FSC certifiable at all.
- Feature
“Regaining Credibility and Rebuilding Support” is the title of a joint statement released today by a powerful group of 6 key organisations within the FSC System: FERN, Greenpeace, Inter-African Forest Industry, Precious Woods, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and Tropical…
- Feature
A report released by Greenpeace on Monday confirms that FSC is already deeply engaged in solving its credibility issues, while much can still be done to improve.
- Feature
By Loa Dalgaard Worm, director of FSC Denmark and Uwe Sayer, Director of FSC Germany: It is difficult to act when you don’t know what your role is? Try to imagine a theatre with no roles for the actors and consider weather you would like to work there - or even pay to see the show!…
- Feature
An Impact Assessment recently conducted by researchers from Sao Paulo University shows clear benefits of FSC certifying plantations in the Southern part of Brazil.
- Perspective
Since André de Freitas took office as Executive Director of FSC International Centre in June this year, he is charged with the impressive task of steering the Forest Stewardship Council into the future.
- Editorial
Editorial by Peter Feilberg, Director of NEPCon When FSC welcomes its members to the 5th ordinary assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, the organisation can also celebrate a truly impressive growth in number of certificates as well as positive impact on the management of the world’s…
- Feature
On the 17th of October, the EU revealed a package including two initiatives that aim to curb global deforestation and reduce the EU's import of illegal timber.
- Market news
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A new project focusing on innovative ways of providing access to certification for small forest operations in Denmark will soon be launched.
- Feature
The launch of the Global Risk Assessment website last month has generated encouraging response from the FSC community. The majority of comments welcome the initiative, and many provide important details or suggestions for the improvement of the website.
- Market news
New gates are opening for small private forest operations in Sweden: FSC-Sweden is launching a project developing special FSC forest management indicators for small and low-intensity managed (SLIMF) forests in Sweden.
- Market news
In the FSC Controlled Wood standard, the corruption level of a country is one of 4 indicators used for evaluating the risk of sourcing illegal wood from that territory.
- Market news
FSC and Controlled Wood certification is the future among the world’s wood industries, according to Taickij Andrej Michajlovich, Director of Borisov DOK JSC in Belarus.
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After a period when more than one third of the Polish state forest had lost their certified status, the FSC certified area in Poland is again increasing. The Polish regional state forest district directorate Olsztyn recently regained its FSC forest management certificate, based on…
- System updates
While most FSC standards and rules have been developing fast, the true backbone of the FSC system - the global FSC principles and criteria for responsible forest management - has remained constant throughout the 15 years since the Forest Stewardship Council was first formed.
- Feature
It is now possible to get free on-line information about the risk of sourcing wood from controversial sources.
- Market news
The FSC Broker Project is organizing a garden furniture & garden wood fair in Bonn on the 24th and 25th of September.
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As of 1 August, Mr. Søren Dürr Grue is employed by NEPCon's Danish office.