05 November 2008
- Feature
Editorial by Søren Dürr Grue, NEPCon While respecting core ILO conventions is mandatory in FSC forest certification, no such requirements are present in the chain of custody rules applying to the rest of the supply chain.
05 November 2008
- Feature
Contribution by FSC International within the program of the FSC GA 2008, the forest conference sessions began Tuesday morning with welcoming remarks from FSC Board of Directors Chairman Roberto Waack and an update to members from FSC Executive Director Andre de Freitas.
05 November 2008
- Feature
- Market news
A market survey presented at the Forest Conference shows that almost 75% of the respondents find that FSC certification brings business value to the company. Less that 6% find that it bring them no business value.
05 November 2008
- Feature
Contribution by FSC International - in 2008, the FSC International Center expanded considerably its activities related to smallholders and community-based forests.
05 November 2008
- Perspective
Interview with Uwe Sayer, Director of FSC-Germany The Baltic I-III projects are jointly implemented by the FSC National Initiatives around the Baltic Sea, led by FSC Germany.
04 November 2008
- 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.
04 November 2008
- 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.
04 November 2008
- Feature
On Monday, Greenpeace released Holding the Line with FSC: Recommendations and progress to date on Certification Body and FSC performance following a critical analysis of a range of ‘controversial certificates’.
04 November 2008
- 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.
04 November 2008
- Perspective
In the opinion of Alan Smith, Social Program Manager and Network coordination team leader of FSC International, the FSC system needs to deliver more benefits to the small forest operations.