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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.

FSC Ukraine and NEPCon have been implementing a Pilot Project on NTFP (Non-Timber Forest Products). This Addendum marks the first milestone of the project and it complements…

NEPCon Mexico AC is now an independent Certification Body for Sustainable Forest Certification accredited by the national authority, the Mexican Accreditation Entity (ema).…

The new CMPC (Compañía Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones) …

The Musim Mas Group (Musim Mas) has marked a milestone in their efforts as a responsible palm oil producer by becoming the …

NEPCon is hosting a launch event for a new project “Sustainability Reporting for Palm Oil Companies” in Jakarta, Indonesia on 27 May 2019. The project seeks to develop four training video modules…

After Marie-Ève and her cousin, Andrew Jirat-Wasiutynski, inherited a forest in Czech Republic following a long forest restitution process, the duo started a company, Lesy…