by Victoria Jofery | Jul 15, 2016 | General
In our last post (23 June 2016), we included a mention of a “Stakeholder Dialogue & Reception” that had been recently announced by the US affiliate of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC-US) for 19 July 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. We were unclear at...
by Victoria Jofery | Jun 23, 2016 | General
We last wrote about The Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) seemingly endless attempt to update its central Chain of Custody (CoC) standard last October. At that time, we mistakenly called attention to the “last round” in a long and tiresome process...
by Victoria Jofery | Apr 10, 2016 | General
It is a real pleasure to be able to share some promising news from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). After many years of hard work, SFI staff – with support from key players in the building materials industry – have succeeded in persuading the...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 23, 2016 | General
The ugly and rather public dispute between FSC-Canada and one of its largest and most influential stakeholders continues to generate real concerns for SFM stakeholders around the world. MixedWood wrote about this “drama” in December, and provided another...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 1, 2016 | General
Just after the turn of the new year, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) posted this news release – calling attention to the publication of an updated version of a document entitled The Development and Revision of FSC Normative Documents (FSC-PRO-01-001 v.3-1)....
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 12, 2016 | General
On 18 December 2015, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) published the final version of a long-awaited update to its Controlled Wood standard (FSC-STD-40-005 v.3-0). You can link to the announcement here, and download a copy of the new standard document here. This...
