Certified wood
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With forest certification, an independent organization develops standards of good forest management, and independent auditors issue certificates to forest operations that comply with those standards. This certification verifies that forests are well-managed—as defined by a particular standard—and ensures that certain wood and paper products come from responsibly managed forests.
The concept of certification was pioneered in the early 1990s by the Forest Stewardship Council, a collaboration between environmental NGOs and timber companies. However, many competing systems quickly emerged throughout the world. Some commentators, including Jared Diamond, have suggested that many competing standards were set up by logging companies specifically aiming to confuse consumers with less rigorously enforced but similarly named competing standards[1].
[edit] See also
- environmental audits
- forest protection
- Forest Stewardship Council
- GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
- sustainable forest management
- sustainable management
- wood management
- Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes
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- ^ Diamond, Jared. 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. p 479. "The effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Council has received the ultimate compliment from logging companies opposed to it: they have set up their own competing certification organizations with weaker standards. These include the Sustainable Forestry Initiative in the U.S., set up by the American Forest and Paper Association; the Canadian Standards Association; and the Pan-European Forest Council"
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