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International Day of People with Disabilities celebrated in the first week of December every year. This international observance is promoted by the United Nations since 1992 and calls for all to work together to create an accessible future to ensure…

Two bamboo plantations which protect watershed and help improve downstream water quality in Pichincha Province, Ecuador have recently been certified against the FSC™ (Forest Stewardship Council™) Ecosystem Services Procedure for its efforts in preserving the ecosystem services. This is…

bookdifferent.com recently interviewed Saúl Blanco, NEPCon's Sustainable Tourism Services Manager, to share his views on how tourism has changed over the last 25 years and how certification labels…

NEPCon recently became the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) registered Certification Body (CB) —…

Compagnie Forestière de Transformation (CFT) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently obtained third-party legality certification for their forest management and logging operations in three concessions near Kisangani in…

“Tourism and Jobs: A better future for all”, is the theme of this year’s World Tourism Day; and at NEPCon, we would like to commemorate it by highlighting the various impacts of responsible tourism of NEPCon…

Environmental organisations, government agencies and businesses have joined forces in the fight against the import of unsustainable soy. …

The issue of biomass consumption in Denmark has garnered wall-to-wall coverage on Danish media over the past few days. The coverage gives an impression that all biomass comes from wood that has been cut from forests where the primary purpose is to supply wood for biomass production.…

From the beginning of the year until August, countless forest fires were recorded in various parts of Germany. In this article, we’ll discuss the impact of some large forest fires recorded in the east German state of Brandenburg, triggered by unexploded…

bookdifferent.com and NEPCon announce our partnership in working on the common goal of making the tourism industry more sustainable. Within this partnership, accommodation providers certified against NEPCon Sustainable Tourism Standard will be featured on bookdifferent.com as…

NEPCon recently presented a commemorative plaque to Columbia Forest Product’s employee-owners in recognition of their long-term commitment to landowners and responsible forest management. Columbia Forest Products (Columbia) is North America’s…

It is an old Danish tradition to own a summerhouse and the Danes love it. For Kent Skovgaard, he took this aged-old tradition a notch above. Besides injecting a dose of Danish Hygge in his newly built summerhouse in Nordjylland, he used…

NEPCon is taking over the direct management of our Rainforest Alliance certification services in Guatemala and Honduras. This is in addition to the clients and audits we already manage across agriculture, forestry and tourism…

Ellepot - a company in Denmark that created a unique propagation system to grow seedlings in FSC™ certified paper pots - i…

Our NEPCon Travel Feed profile on Tripadvisor is now live and we are pleased to have our friends from the Center for…

The Rainforest Alliance is now conducting open consultations on the Rainforest Alliance for Farm and Chain of Custody standards until 31 August 2019 and invites all stakeholders to provide feedback by completing a survey.  

Climate Neutral Group - a European market leader in the field of carbon footprinting, life cycle analysis and emission reduction and carbon offsetting and …

Printing house, FINIDR s.r.o has achieved a 41% reduction in carbon dioxide (…

On 17 June 2019, NEPCon joined other eleven founding members to sign the Declaration of "Polish Coalition for Sustainable Palm Oil (PKZOP)". The group of non-profit and non-governmental organisations, as well as multinational food and beverage companies, pledged to increase the uptake…

A new partnership agreement between NEPCon and Imaflora will expand LegalSource certification offerings to Brazil, with Imaflora conducting LegalSource assessments in the country.