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."
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Press release by Greenpeace and WWF at www.panda.org February
19, 2001
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Press release IN FINNISH Ympäristöjärjestöt torjuvat metsäteollisuuden
sertifiointihankkeet ja peräänkuuluttavat uskottavaa metsäsertifiointia
February 19, 2001
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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.
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Press release IN ENGLISH at www.greenpeace.org January
30, 2001
>>> Press
release IN FINNISH January 29, 2001
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Press release IN SWEDISH at www.greenpeace.se January
29, 2001
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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
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Forest Stewardship Council FSC home page
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FSC in Sweden
