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...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 7, 2016 | General
Last month we wrote about a troubling and quite public debate that has been brewing in the press and social media recently. It concerns challenges and concerns being raised by some Canadian timber companies (in particular, Resolute Forest Products) and involving...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 4, 2015 | General
An interesting and rather disturbing drama has been unfolding recently, within the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) community in Canada. Long-standing anxieties concerning the viability and sustainability of FSC certification in the Canadian forest have come into...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 30, 2015 | General
Among those who are following the pending update of the FSC Chain of Custody standard (FSC-STD-40-004 v.3-0 D2), one item has risen to the top of everyone’s list. That item is called Transaction Verification. Transaction Verification exists – officially...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 29, 2015 | General
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...
by Victoria Jofery | Aug 31, 2015 | General
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, &...
by Victoria Jofery | Jun 22, 2015 | General
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)...
by Victoria Jofery | May 1, 2015 | General
We have promised several times recently to write more about the FSC Controlled Wood revision process. Despite keen interest (and a lot of good intentions), this project kept getting postponed. One very good reason is the sheer complexity of the topic. But that...
