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The cork stopper in your wine bottle, as you probably know if you’re reading this, comes from the bark of the cork oak tree. Have a look at this article to see some fabulous photos of FSC-certified cork production.

Sākot ar 2018. gada 21. martu Latvijā un Igaunijā stājas spēkā Centralizētie nacionālie riska novērtējumi (turpmāk – CNRA), kas paredz daudzas nozīmīgas izmaiņas kontrolētās koksnes sistēmā, tādēļ uzņēmumiem, kuri sertificēti atbilstoši Kontrolētas koksnes standartam…

The combined organisation will provide credible sustainability certification services at a global scale, engage with wide and diverse stakeholders, and productively contribute to the development of numerous certification schemes.

New FSC standards, frauds in certified products and blockchain technology, launch of NEPCon Sourcing Hub, new tools to support the timber sector… here are the most-read articles of the year in NEPCon's newsroom.  

Getting certified costs money. It’s worth doing from an environmental point of view, but is it worth doing from a purely business point of view?

Are you a student, consultant, or entrepreneur and keen to develop a business idea around ecosystem services and products? An online training course starting this October offers you a range of support including writing your own business plan.

Five Ukrainian organisations have lost their FSC^TM Chain of Custody certificates after FSC started using volume control for charcoal supply chains earlier this year. This outcome follows an investigation of the volume control system – undertaken with close cooperation…

Today, we're releasing the NEPCon Sourcing Hub, the biggest and most detailed collection of forest-related risk assessments that have ever been published. 

Your supplier has given you some documents that appear to show that the timber they’re selling to you was legally harvested. But how do you know if the documents are genuine or not?

Meeting the due diligence legality requirements of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) can be a challenge. But there’s help at hand as we’re running some free training courses this autumn. The training is part of a project we’re running that’s funded by the LIFE Programme of the European…