Why can I buy more FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) accredited papers?
Many environmental groups such as WWF, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth support the FSC. They believe it offers the only truly independent forest certification scheme that is consistent worldwide and provides sufficient reassurance about issues like indigenous people’s rights. However, a lot of forest owners are not so keen. They feel that the FSC is unaccountable and inattentive to their needs. It has been considered by many to be too costly and too complicated for individuals and small organizations to achieve. There is also perhaps a ‘them and us’ situation between green groups and industry. The FSC has taken steps to help small holders more easily achieve certification. Nevertheless many forest owners, large and small, have opted to go with more accommodating national forest certification schemes, many of which come under the umbrella of the Pan European Forest Certification (PEFC) scheme. These problems, plus demand from the timber industry for FSC labeled products, mean that
