FSC CoC update: one last plea for simplification

After nearly three years of work, FSC is about to close the second discussion period on Draft 2 of the latest version of its main Chain of Custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004 v.3-0).  This latest draft was released on August 31, 2015 and MixedWood posted a brief article...

FSC’s new CoC: round 2

After more than 2 years of hard work, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) released a first discussion draft of its version 3 update to the important Chain of Custody standard late last year. We commented on that draft several times last winter (here, here, &...

FSC: doubling down on the Myth of the Gap

If MixedWood is defined by one idea, it would be this:  Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) will always be hard.  So SFM certification programs – the tools we use to bringing SFM products to market – should not make it harder. Chain of Custody (CoC)...

Risky Business for FSC Controlled Wood

We have promised several times recently to write more about the FSC Controlled Wood revision process.  Despite keen interest (and a lot of good intentions), this project kept getting postponed.  One very good reason is the sheer complexity of the topic.  But that...

Chain of Custody Simplified

Readers will, by now, be very aware of the important update and revision that FSC has begun for its central Chain of Custody (CoC) standard – FSC-STD-40-004.  If you have not yet contributed to the discuss and provided FSC with your own feedback, we urge you to...