Global Challenges for Certification
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- Really stressing the role of PEFC as an Alliance, to hit home why we are connected to Russian Standard and why we see the international significance of today’s event.
- We do need to realize that only 8% of the world's forest are certified. This corresponds to 26% of the global industrial round wood production. And if you think that 26% does sound like a lot, keep in mind that it has taken the two global certification organisations almost 20 years to get to this level. What's more, according to the UN, the rate of increase in global certified forest area has slowed dramatically since 2006.
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