The Rainforest Alliance announces a new grant that will strengthen sustainable forest management with small landowners in the Southeast region of the United States. The program is funded by a $1.35 million combined investment from four major forestry and paper-goods companies including Avery Dennison, Columbia Forest Products, Domtar and Staples, Inc. The forests in the […]
Gala Recognizes Sustainability Practitioners Around the World with Sustainable-Setter Awards The Rainforest Alliance is proud to announce the recipients of the 2015 Sustainable Standard-Setter Award, presented to corporate and individual leaders in sustainability. The awards will be presented on May 13th in New York City at the annual spring gala at the American Museum of […]
Diverse Business, Government and NGO Leaders Converge at NYC Summit on Keeping Sustainability Commitments More and more major companies are announcing ambitious commitments to green supply chains and source environmentally and socially sustainable commodities, including a spate of new “deforestation-free” declarations. But implementing them is the hard part. It requires transparency, accountability, and bringing sustainability […]
In its new position paper published today, “Halting Deforestation and Achieving Sustainability,” the Rainforest Alliance addresses the recent surge in deforestation-free pledges. Timed to coincide with an Innovation Forum event in Washington, DC on “How Business Can Tackle Deforestation,” the paper argues the deforestation-free trend is an exciting development, but needs definition, focus, and accountability […]
Moderate progress made, more work to do. An independent evaluation by the Rainforest Alliance released today reports that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has made moderate progress to meet its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) Commitments, which were announced two years ago. Early in 2013 APP approached the Rainforest Alliance to conduct an independent evaluation of […]
The Rainforest Alliance has agreed to a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-Canada request that a suspended Resolute Forest Products certificate with the Rainforest Alliance be extended for six months. The certificate is for PF Résolu Canada Inc., located in Lac St-Jean, Quebec. The Lac St-Jean certificate (RA-FM/COC-005956) will reach its one-year suspension anniversary on January 2, […]