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Report on the seminar on building confidence among forest certification schemes and their supporters

Year of publication 2001

Author Forest Products Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the German aid agency GTZ, and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) hosted a seminar in Rome on 19-20 February to encourage improved dialogue and linkages between organisations that have an interest in forest certification. Voluntary certification of forest management and labelling of forest products is recognized as a potential tool for promoting sustainable forest management. However, many consider that th e proliferation of certification and/or labelling schemes that is occurring is inhibiting the process. Others do not share this view. Despite the differing views there have been increasing calls for efforts to achieve some degree of international comparability and to consider the equivalency of different certification schemes. FAO, GTZ, and ITTO sought to assist the process of understanding by bringing a wide range of stakeholders together to discuss their areas of agreement and of disagree ment, in the hope that this would increase the understanding and build confidence between them. The seminar aimed to improve dialogue and contact, clarify the positions of the different stakeholder groups, increase understanding, and initiate a broad-based dialogue, in order to encourage those involved with certification to work together. It also sought to extend discussions that had taken place at earlier meetings to a broader range of stakeholders, especially the developing countries and civil society in order to encourage greater co-operation. A central issue was the comparability and equivalence between credible forest certification schemes.

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