1 February 2004
The growing number of so-called sustainable forest certification schemes is causing confusion in the marketplace and hampering efforts to improve forest management, according to industry and environmental groups. But while they agree that the credibility of certification is on the line, each is urging very different solutions to the problem.
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Further information:
- 1 Footprints in the forest, available at www.fern.org
- 2 Following up on 'Towards a sustainable paper cycle' available at www.wbcsd.ch/web/projects/forestry/iied-paper-report.pdf
- 3 Forest certification systems and the legitimacy thresholds model available at www.wbcsd.ch/web/projects/forestry/ltm.pdf
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Categories:
- Products & Supply Chain;
- Green Strategy;
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
- International Institute for Environment and Development;
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development;
- Forest Stewardship Council;
- WWF;
- Procter & Gamble;
- AOL Time Warner;
- World Bank;
- Yale University;
- FERN;
- Forest Integrity Network;
- Transparency International;
- Nature Conservancy Indonesia
