PF Olsen - Forest Certification - The Forest Stewardship Council
The Forest Stewardship Council
The FSC certification system is currently one of the most
established and recognised in the world and the only one currently used
in New Zealand.
FSC certification schemes have sought to harness the power of
choice amongst environmentally concerned consumers by establishing a
credible, internationally recognised, trademark that is associated with
products derived from forests certified as “well
managed” under the system.
Founded in 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC) is an independent, international non-profit organisation that
became established with the objective of providing a verifiable
standards system applicable to forestry products.
With a structure reflecting the philosophy of
“triple bottom line” accounting, The FSC
organisation is structured around three chambers; Economic, Social and
Environmental FSC is controlled by an elected board from the three
chambers and is managed from Bonn in Germany.
FSC is supported and promoted internationally by WWF,
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and many other prominent
Environmental Non-Government Organisations (ENGOs).
