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The Rainforest Alliance, the owner of the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture scheme, …

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration highlights the importance of ecosystem restoration in halting biodiversity loss and coping with climate change while addressing other broad societal challenges. The world has set a goal of…

As tourism numbers return to pre-pandemic levels, the need for strategic planning and training in the travel sector couldn’t be clearer. Chaos at airports and a lack of trained travel staff over the summer half term has left the post-Covid travel industry looking fragile. 

Sustainability is a paramount hallmark for the travel sector. Tourism businesses need a good set of guiding principles that can help provide conscious travellers with confidence. After being used to evaluate tourism…

In early April, Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC™) decided to suspend certificates in armed conflict areas of Ukraine. To support certificate holders in areas not affected by conflict in the country to maintain their certification,…

The EU ban on timber exports from Russia and Belarus is a severe blow to the global market for sustainable timber and biomass. Businesses and governments will face significant challenges, says Peter Feilberg, Executive Director at Preferred by Nature.

FSC™, PEFC and SBP have conducted risk assessments and provided clarifications on timber sourced from Russia and Belarus.

With all its forest FSC certified, Lithuania’s State Forest Enterprise has used Ecosystems Services certification to go one step further, turning a large forest area into a haven for white-tailed eagles and other rare species and natural habitats of importance.…

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) teamed up with Preferred by Nature and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency to develop a framework aligning certified palm oil with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). A report on the study is now publicly available.…

With the adoption of a new EU regulation on timber, soy, coffee, cocoa, beef and palm oil, EU businesses will be faced with new legal requirements. Join this webinar to get a better understanding of how it may affect you. …

FSC has introduced a new Trademark License Agreement (TLA) as of 20 January 2022. Accordingly, FSC single certificate holders applying for new or renewed certification must sign the new TLA.

EU’s proposal for a wide-reaching anti-deforestation regulation is rightly being hailed as a big step forward towards ensuring sustainability, but human rights and taxes - both essential to achieving full sustainability - have been left out.

Yet another year has passed. Yet another year with challenges and exciting developments. 2021 was not an easy year. COVID has continued to turn our work and our lives upside down, but nevertheless, we have managed to do our work and deliver our mission.  

Preferred by Nature has introduced a comprehensive timber legality toolkit to help forest owners, timber traders and processors in Vietnam to ensure compliance to the FLEGT-VPA requirements in the country. This is part of the V4MF project’s effort to improve timber legality in Vietnam…

Preferred by Nature’s multi-tool for sustainability verification, the Sustainability Framework, is now aligned with the EU proposal for deforestation free products.

Despite the massive environmental and social impacts of rice farming, a sustainable version of the popular grain has never been available to consumers. Now it is.

The global shipping and logistics company has an ambitious target to reach CO2 neutrality by 2050. We need to act now, says Ingrid Marie Vincent Andersen, Head of Decarbonisation Targets & Life Cycle Assessment, who recently teamed up with Preferred by Nature in…

A significant increase in the FSC Annual Administration Fee (AAF) will be spent on bolstering system integrity, virtual meeting facilities and new systems for collecting impact data, says FSC Director General Kim Carstensen.

Buggi 52, an eight-storey wooden residential and commercial building located in Freiburg, has become the first FSC-certified (FSC-P001833) building in Germany. With this certification, the building owner - IG Klösterle…

Preferred by Nature has published a new guide to provide an explanation why EU buyers might be asking questions about the legality of wood and wood-based products and give some tips on how to make the process easier for both the seller and the buyer.