Certifying timber gives some level of certainty that forest products are sustainable. CIFOR/Flickr The two international forestry certifications - Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Program for the ...

Using forest biomass products—such as timber, fuel wood, or paper—in a sustainable manner, without exhausting resources or diminishing forest biodiversity, requires transparency on the origin and ...

WWF has developed the Certification Assessment Tool (CAT) to test the strength of certification systems and their standards. Certification schemes have an important role to play in forest conservation ...

The UNFF Country-Led-Initiative (CLI) by the Government of India in support of the UN Forum on Forests was held successfully in Dehradun, India from 26 to 28 October. The meeting brought together over ...

Forest certification is considered a promising tool to improve forest management, but there needs to be a robust evaluation of a complex web of factors to establish its true value for various ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We at Greenpeace believe certification schemes are far from perfect, nor are they the only tool to achieve environmental and social goals; however ...

In Pará, the Brazilian state with the highest deforestation rate, communities inside Tapajós National Forest have for the past 15 years run one of the most successful native timber management projects ...