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February 19, 2001 PRESS RELEASE Environmental NGOs call for credible forest certification and reject IFIR mutual recognition proposal

Rome, Italy - At the meeting "Building Confidence Among Forest Certification Schemes and their Supporters" hosted by FAO, ITTO and GTZ, Greenpeace and WWF stressed today that rigorous forest certification is an important tool to help preserve the world's remaining forests and to guarantee responsible forest management. Any certification system needs to ensure maximum credibility to avoid the risk of confusing industry and consumers. WWF and Greenpeace reject the proposal by the International Forest Industries Roundtable (IFIR) for mutual recognition of forest certification schemes. "We reject the IFIR mutual recognition proposal as fundamentally flawed and a significant step backwards for forests, forest certification, and consumers."

>>> Press release by Greenpeace and WWF at www.panda.org February 19, 2001
>>> Press release IN FINNISH Ympäristöjärjestöt torjuvat metsäteollisuuden sertifiointihankkeet ja peräänkuuluttavat uskottavaa metsäsertifiointia February 19, 2001
>>> Photos of the meeting in Rome
>>> www.pefcwatch.org

 

Jan / Feb 2001 WEB SITE www.pefcwatch.org
Web site represents a joint report Anything goes? Report on PEFC Certified Finnish Forestry by the FNL and Greenpeace Nordic which examines the ecological reliability of the PEFC certification through concete examples.
Report concludes that PEFC labelled products cannot be recommended to ecologically responsible consumers.
>>> Press release IN ENGLISH at www.greenpeace.org January 30, 2001
>>> Press release IN FINNISH January 29, 2001
>>> Press release IN SWEDISH at www.greenpeace.se January 29, 2001
>>> www.pefcwatch.org OPEN NOW

INFORMATION ABOUT CERTIFICATION

>>> www.pefcwatch.org

STATEMENT by European environmental NGOs April 2000:
PEFC does not fulfil minimum credibility requirements - European NGOs reject PEFC: "...the PEFC currently does not provide an acceptable certification scheme for good forest management"
>>> The whole statement

FSC News in the WWF Finland pages: go to "In English", then to "Nature Conservation Programs"
>>> FSC News

>>> Forest Stewardship Council FSC home page

>>> FSC in Sweden

PRESS RELEASES ABOUT CERTIFICATION

PRESS RELEASE November 24, 1999:
The Finnish Nature League accepted as a FSC member - The Finnish "certification" not preferred by European customers
>>> The whole release


Finnish Nature League FNL is member of the Taiga Rescue Network TRN
and member of Forest Stewardship Council FSC


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