23 October 2008
- 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.
02 October 2008
- 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.
26 September 2008
- 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.
24 September 2008
- 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 directorate Olsztyn recently regained its FSC forest management certificate, based on third-…
24 September 2008
- 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.
23 September 2008
- 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.
18 September 2008
- Feature
It is now possible to get free on-line information about the risk of sourcing wood from controversial sources.
06 September 2008
- Market news
The FSC Broker Project is organizing a garden furniture & garden wood fair in Bonn on the 24th and 25th of September.
19 August 2008
- 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.
19 August 2008
- Preferred by Nature news
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