by Victoria Jofery | Mar 10, 2021 | General
We received another email from FSC-US’ Policy and Standards forum, with information on a pair of webinars scheduled for late this month. The webinars will be (we think) presented by staff from FSC-International in Bonn and are likely to provide an eye-opening...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 9, 2021 | General
The US affiliate of FSC maintains a Policy and Standards Forum to facilitate communication within the community of active practitioners and certifiers. They posted a very well-written summary of the new CoC Labor Requirements that we wrote about last week. It...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 2, 2021 | General
After years of confused and dysfunctional debate, FSC seem to have finally reached a resolution to the question of whether to include Social Indicators in its Chain of Custody standard. An announcement was released today by email from the Policy office in Bonn. It...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 8, 2020 | General
This brief post is to update – one last time, we hope – the story we shared in September and October about FSC’s ill-considered policy decision about species documentation for Chain of Custody (CoC) companies. Click here to read our original post on the subject. ...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 20, 2020 | General
This post is an update to our last article, calling attention to a new and unwelcome policy decision from FSC. In our usual style, we described the new document – “ADVICE-40-004-19” – in general terms and provided links to the original. Ulf Sonntag is a leading...
