FSC CoC update: Round 3

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...

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)...

Revisiting the Myth of the Gap

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is currently engaged in an important update to its central Chain of Custody (CoC) standard.  The discussion draft of version 3 of FSC-STD-40-004 is the result of over 2 years of work by a small working committee and was published...