- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Market news
- Preferred by Nature news
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…
- 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 (…
- 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.
- Market news
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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Standard updates
FSC has just sent out a new draft advice note regarding the use of chain of custody certified contractors. This draft policy promises to help solving a current bottleneck in the CoC system.
- System updates
Risk assessments developed by companies certified through NEPCon according to the FSC controlled wood standard (FSC-STD-40-005 version 2.1) may now be found at www.fsc-info.org.
- Market news
Prinfo Denmark, a consolidation of 35 Danish graphic companies, has obtained the largest FSC multi-site certificate issued to date in Denmark.