- Perspective
Can we put a price on drinking water, Orang-utans, cultural or historical sites in pursuit of conserving these values? Issues around these questions were raised during yesterday’s meeting on ecosystem services.
- Editorial
Is the FSC system - including its quality control body ASI - ensuring sufficient focus on field performance? Jakob Ryding from Forests of the World - formerly known as Nepenthes - sets out to discover the answer.
- Feature
- System updates
A side meeting yesterday FSC IC confirmed that key challenges remain for smallholders. Perspectives from three regions were offered on their success in applying the Small and Low Intensity Managed Forest (SLIMF) standard.
- Market news
Close to 300 million trees are currently standing underwater, yet this vast resource remains largely untouched and ignored by the global timber market. Canadian-based Triton Logging has pioneered the field of underwater logging over the past 10 years, creating the technology necessary…
- Editorial
Transparency, consistency, credibility: words that express core values for FSC and are often heard in the debate surrounding FSC Controlled Wood. We asked Greenpeace how they see FSC's progress on this issue since Cape Town.
- Feature
Jameson French relays what it was like to be one of the early proponents of FSC among the US industry. Today, many of his earlier critics are certified themselves.
- Perspective
Has FSC made the step-change needed to meet this ambitious goal in its Global Strategy to boost FSC certification in the tropics and among communities? Some exciting initiatives are underway, so we look at how the 2008 motions have fared and see what lies ahead.
- Feature
- System updates
The fundamental principles for good forest management, the global Principles & Criteria (P&C) were heavily debated among FSC’s members over the weekend. A key issue of concern was whether they resulted in reduced access for smallholders and the forests of the South.
- Editorial
There had to be a cut-off date, and FSC chose the year 1994. After that point, certification of plantations converted from natural forest is excluded. But FSC certification was invented as a market-based tool for change, and the Director of Sabah Forestry Department argues this may bar…
- System updates
FSC has announced that it is in the process of developing an online platform for tracing FSC-certified timber products throughout the certified supply chain.
- Press releases
NEPCon and the Rainforest Alliance have launched a new tool today that will propel importers to take the necessary steps to prepare for the new EU timber regulation, effective from March 2013. Screening and management of supply chains is urgently needed for almost all EU companies…
- Market news
Grantini 1 – a group of private Latvian forest owners –achieved FSC/Rainforest Alliance certification covering 984 hectares of forest.
- System updates
Prompted by complaints filed by several NGOs, the Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committee (TPAC) has re-assessed the PEFC international scheme.
- Market news
Need something good to cool you down on a hot summer's day? Buy a Magnum icecream and support responsible land use, for the benefit of the environment and the local people who produce the cocoa used for the delicious icecream coating.
- Standard updates
FSC has released a new version of its standard “Sourcing reclaimed material for use in FSC Product Groups or FSC Certified Projects” (FSC-STD-40-007 V2-0).
- Market news
- Perspective
Historically, the paper and print industry has been an important driver of forest certification worldwide. Now this role is set to grow even stronger. Forestry certification schemes play a major role in the strategy adopted by European graphic industries, for staying competitive on a…
- Preferred by Nature news
NEPCon and the Rainforest Alliance are launching a new tool today that will aid companies importing timber into the EU to identify and manage weakness in their supply chains. Importers urgently need to prepare for the new EU regulation which aims to curb the influx of illegal timber…
- Market news
Companies in the furniture industry swarmed to Cologne’s Interzum last month to showcase their products. Certification and legality assurance were hotly debated on the floors of one of the world's largest trade fair grounds.
- Market news
Sandwish wraps, fry boxes, takeout bags and trayliners.
- Feature
- Preferred by Nature news
At an Environmental Finance conference this month, financers signalled strong interest to invest in forest carbon projects.