certification schemes

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'Give APP the boot,' Greenpeace tells PEFC

Last edited 9 July 2010 at 10:56am
9 July, 2010

Greenpeace are asking certification scheme PEFC to stop stalling and drop the under-fire pulp and paper giant APP, who were again exposed earlier this week for pushing orangutans and tigers towards extinction with their destructive logging practices.

PEFC said yesterday that they have asked an auditor to investigate APP, following the publication of a Greenpeace report earlier this week.

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Holding the Line with FSC

Last edited 31 October 2008 at 4:05pm
Publication date: 
3 November, 2008

Over the past 12 years, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has created a leading global system for credible certification of environmentally and socially responsible managed forests and it has been innovative and adaptive in meting the challenges to transform forest stewardship worldwide. Its success and the reality of rapid growth and demand have lead FSC to face a number of challenges.

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Certification schemes

Last edited 25 July 2007 at 3:44pm

Paper bearing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo

The FSC logo is the best guarantee that wood and paper products come from well-managed sources

With so much timber on the market that is destructively or illegally logged, it's important to have a certification system that can assess the logging industry's impact in forestry areas on both the environment and the communities who live there.

Article tagged as: certification schemes, deforestation, forests, FSC

UK government decision undermines its own timber policy

Last edited 20 December 2006 at 9:00am
20 December, 2006

Indigenous peoples' rights are not fully protected under many timber certification schemes

London - Today major environmental groups, including WWF, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and FERN, criticized the government's decision to allow its departments to purchase wood products certified by schemes that allow destructive logging practises, by accepting them as proof of sustainability.

Article tagged as: certification schemes, forests, illegal timber, press releases, UK policy

Malaysian Timber Certification Council

Last edited 30 November 2005 at 9:00am
Tracking illegally logged rainforst timber leaving Indonesia
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Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Last edited 29 November 2005 at 9:00am
TimberWest SFI-certified logging near Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, 2003
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UK government makes 'clear-cut' decision on timber

Posted by admin — 29 November 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

In July 2000 the UK government introduced a policy requiring all of its departments and agencies to 'actively seek' to buy timber from legal and sustainable sources. Given that central government procurement accounts for approximately 15 per cent of timber used in the UK (and that the broader public sector may account for as much as 40 per cent), this was seen as a positive move to push the wider UK timber market towards environmentally and socially responsible sources.

Article tagged as: certification schemes, CPET, CSA, forests, FSC, government, illegal timber, MTCC, PEFC, SFI

Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes

Last edited 29 November 2005 at 9:00am
Forest destruction in Finland, much of which is certified under the Finnish Forest Certification Scheme
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Canadian Standards Association

Last edited 29 November 2005 at 9:00am
Pristine habitat at Goat Cove in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada
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