Thursday, October 27, 2016

SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS/FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)

FSC is a global, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of responsible forest management worldwide. It enable businesses and consumers to make informed choices about the forest products they buy, and create positive change by engaging the power of market dynamics.  Today, FSC is the world’s strongest certification system, in terms of global reach, robustness of certification criteria and number of businesses involved in the system.

FSC has 28,000 certificate holders in 81 countries worldwide. We work with 150,000 smallholders around the world, and we are increasingly working with indigenous groups around the world. In 2013, FSC formed the Permanent Indigenous Peoples’ Committee to ensure that indigenous people have a say in the way forests are managed.

To read click here:  FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)