In 2022, Mongabay spoke with then-FSC director-general Kim Carstensen, who emphasized the need to strengthen the credibility and accountability of forest certification. Two years later, his successor, ...

Indonesia is the first test case for the Forest Stewardship Council’s new remedy framework, which allows logging firms to regain ethical certification by addressing past environmental and social harms ...

“[W]hile [the proposed framework] assumes monopoly problems in these four areas, it neglects the importance of ensuring that remedies do not unnecessarily harm the competitive process and slow ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Forestry Stewardship Council, a voluntary global certification was established in 1993 by environmentalists, Indigenous groups, human rights ...