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In-Session Seminar: Certification and forest Product Labelling: Review

Year of publication 2000

Author Forestry Group

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper provides a brief background on the subject of certification of the sustainable management of forests and the labelling of forest products. It reviews where certification stands at present, what some of the important issues concerning it are, and where it may be going in the future. The purpose is to provide a basis for more detailed discussion, and particularly to raise some questions that require attention.

Meeting symbol APFC 2000 10

Language English

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