FSC Canada presents draft national forest management standard

FSC has requested a six-month extension to be granted by the certification body Rainforest Alliance for a suspended forest certificate held by Resolute Forests Products in Lac St-Jean, Quebec. The deadline for the suspension of this certificate is extended from January 2 to July 2, 2015.

Three FSC certificates held by Resolute Forest Products, Canada’s largest forest enterprise, will be suspended from 1 January 2014. The decision by the Rainforest Alliance comes following the finding of major non-conformities not being sufficiently addressed on the part of Resolute Forest Products, and affects a forest...