by Victoria Jofery | Feb 25, 2014 | General
When I last wrote in this space about the SFI 5-year standard review process I promised to provide my own commentary on the posted draft standards here. My intentions were good, but business has been brisk over the last month and the needs and interests of my clients...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 19, 2014 | General
It has become an accepted fact in the green certification business that growth at the root of the supply chain – the forest – has pretty well leveled off. Most of the large institutional and industrial landowners have either become certified (to SFI, FSC,...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 18, 2014 | General
Readers of the MixedWood blog will be familiar with my skeptical view of the FSC’s recent efforts to build and deploy a massive new central transaction database called the Online Claims Platform. Newcomers can pick up the thread here, and follow it back as far...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 27, 2014 | General
I received an message this morning in my inbox from FSC-IC, announcing the release of a second discussion draft of their International Generic Indicators (IGI’s). You can read all about the IGI process, from FSC’s perspective, here. You read some earlier...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 10, 2014 | General
In my January 8 blogpost, I called attention to the ambitious and impressive effort that the SFI program staff a making to engage stakeholders in the comprehensive review of their standards this year. I feel strongly that all companies who hold SFI certificates...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 8, 2014 | General
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program just released discussion drafts of the 5-year update to its main standard documents. They have also done an impressive job of organizing a format for stakeholder feedback and...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 7, 2014 | General
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program is currently engaged on a very important update to its entire set of standards. The process began earlier this year, was kicked into high gear yesterday with the release of the first discussion drafts for the 2015-19...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 2, 2014 | General
Earlier this year, I wrote about changes to the PEFC Chain of Custody standard – driven largely by new wood-product legality legislation that went into force in the European Union last year. The new regulations (EUTR) really grabbed the attention of all the...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 10, 2013 | General
The US Lacey Act might be the most important and least understood subject in the paper and forest product industry. One reason for it being poorly understood was – until recently – that the available information and guidance about it was hard to find and...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 9, 2013 | General
The FSC business community in the United Kingdom continue to take a strong interest (and exception) to the proposed FSC Online Claims Platform (OCP). I was sent a copy of recent edition of the Timber Trades Journal (TTJ) online edition late last week that seems to...
