13 January 2010
- Market news
Two leading UK supermarkets - Sainsbury's and The Co-operative Group - are coming to the rescue of threatened Mediterranean cork oak forests.
08 January 2010
- Market news
Each year, millions of wooden dowels packed on lorries leave the warehouse facilities of the Danish company Nissenpack A/S and travel to buyers across Europe.
29 December 2009
- Market news
The leading Danish ethical bank Merkur Cooperative Bank has been financing socially and environmentally sustainable business development in Europe for decades.
29 December 2009
- Feature
During a meeting on the 15th of December, the EU Council of Agricultural Ministers decided against a proposal to put an EU-wide legal ban on trade in illegal wood products - a move that would match the strict US Lacey Act, which is impacting production and trade chains around the world.
22 December 2009
- Feature
The Global Canopy Programme - an alliance of 37 scientific institutions in 19 countries - has produced two excellent and user-friendly books on climate change financing.
21 December 2009
- Perspective
Ironically, the snow started falling during the last days of the Copenhagen summit where world leaders were gathering to combat global warming.
18 December 2009
- Market news
Some of the issues presented by speakers at the Forest Day 3 event in Copenhagen will have major implications for the forest product industries, although it is hard to tell exactly when or how.
18 December 2009
- Market news
A mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries - REDD - has been on the table for years as part of the climate change negotiations.
16 December 2009
- Market news
NGOs joining the Copenhagen COP 15 climate conference expressed concern about a so-called logging loophole contained in a proposal put forward by developed countries with strong forestry sectors.
16 December 2009
- Standard updates
FSC has introduced a trademark licensing system which will be phased in for existing certificate holders during 2010.