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Rubber-stamping Repression

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Key changes blocked by industry at “make or break” FSC meeting in Bali

15.11.2022 Green label’s ‘multi-stakeholder approach’ fails to deliver for forests and forest peoples

Key victories on EU deforestation law, but challenges remain

25.07.2022 The planned EU legislation on deforestation-free supply chains has completed two significant steps on its way to becoming law



Russia’s timber oligarchs

11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms

Taiga King 2: Back In Business

21.02.2022 Russian tycoon Alexander Pudovkin flooded Europe with dirty wood. He and his customers got away with it

Suspect timber firms lobby for certified wood ‘green lane’ in draft EU anti-deforestation law

09.11.2021 Influential timber industry group run by firms guilty of logging and wood trading abuses calls for proposed EU rules to wave through wood certified by dubious sustainability schemes

FSC hall of shame: The ethical wood label’s long line of scandals

25.10.2021 The Forest Stewardship Council label is supposed to guarantee products are sustainably sourced, sadly it is not always the case

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