by Victoria Jofery | Mar 7, 2013 | General
A number of leaders in the forest certification field are attending and participating in the World Forests Summit this week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been noticing a number of posts coming over my twitter feed calling attention to various comments and...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 28, 2013 | General
It’s been well understood and acknowledged for many years that the chief weakness of the FSC certification system has been the major variances in application around the world. Although a single set of Principles and Criteria (P&C) apply worldwide, the...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 26, 2013 | General
An email was circulated today from FSC Policy and Standards Unit (PSU). It further extends the deadline in for signing of the troublesome self-declaration document included in the FSC Chain of Custody standard (Annex B of PRO-20-001). As of today, the deadline is...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 21, 2013 | General
Today I happened to stumble on a rather nice piece of writing about FSC and SFI certification from the perspective of a commercial printer. I have no connection to these folks, but was impressed with their site. Please take a look:...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 21, 2013 | General
Last August I wrote a blogpost entitled FSC and the ILO. It attempted to summarize and call some attention to a very strange, but important conflict that has arisen between FSC-IC and a group of (mostly) US companies over some apparently minor details of language in...
