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NORTH AMERICA: CERTIFIED FOREST PRODUCTS COUNCIL
Contact :
David Ford
Certified Forest Products Council
14780 SW Osprey Drive, Suite 285
Beaverton, Oregon
97007 USA.
tel 1 503 590 6600
fax 1 503 90 6655
e mail cfpc@ix.netcom.com
Founded : The Certified Forest Products Council was established following the merger of the Forest Products Buyers Group (founded: 1997) and the Good Wood Alliance (founded: 1990) in November 1997.
Mission statement
The Certified Forest Products Council is an independent, not-for-profit, voluntary initiative committed to promoting responsible forest products buying practices throughout North America in an effort to improve forest management practices worldwide.
The Certified Forest Products Council actively promotes and facilitates the increased purchase, use, and sale of third-party independently certified forest products.
Comprised of conservation-minded individuals as well as businesses and organizations that buy, sell, specify, or manufacture forest products, the Council works to achieve its goals in partnership with environmental organizations and a wide range of stakeholders.
Goals of the Certified Forest Products Council
- To provide leadership in promoting responsible forest product buying practices among all users of forest products.
- To continuously increase the purchase, use, and sale of third-party independently certified forest products.
- To build demand-side pressure for an increased variety and volume of certified forest products.
- To develop up-to-date, objective assessments of forest certification and other management and labeling programs so as to assist members in determining those programs that are the most credible, comprehensive, and effective.
- To strengthen and promote links between buyers and suppliers of independently certified forest products.
- To play a leading role in educating specifiers, buyers, and consumers of forest products about the opportunity to promote responsible forest management practices through the purchase of independently certified forest products.
- To forge strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, including environmental organizations and forest products suppliers; and to work closely with complementary initiatives world wide, to share non-proprietary information, knowledge, and experience about buying and supplying independently certified forest products.
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