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Evidence demonstrating the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification

FSC in Chile World Wide Fund for Nature; Private funds (NGOs, companies, VSS self-funded etc); Forest Stewardship Council (World Wide Fund for Nature, 2015) Type News Item
Is FSC certification worth the paper it's printed on? Mehta, Angeli; Forest Stewardship Council (Reuters, 2020-03-07) Type News Item
Angeli Mehta reports on pressures to reform the forests certification scheme amid declining take-up and concerns about credibility in countries like Russia What difference do certifications make in the forest sector? The short answer is that it's hard to tell. And that should be cause for concern.
Many Planned Tropical Roads Shouldn ' t Be Built , Concludes Major Study James Cook University (James Cook University, 2017) Type News Item
Move to set science-based targets for timber sector as threat to northern forests grows Mehta, Angeli; Forest Stewardship Council (Reuters, 2020) Type News Item
Environmentalists warn that clear-cut logging permitted by the FSC and poor forestry management practices are undermining the ability slow-growing boreal forests to store carbon. Angeli Mehta reports While the focus of efforts to end deforestation has been on tropical rainforests, home to the majority of the world's biodiversity, ancient woodlands in the northern hemisphere are also critically important, storing the carbon equivalent of nearly twice the world's recoverable oil reserves in their soil.