As featured by PEFC International After ten years on the PEFC International Board of Directors, Peter Latham has stepped down as Chair of the PEFC Board following his five-year tenure. Peter joined the PEFC Board in 2011 before becoming the Chair in 2016. During Peter’s tenure as Chair, PEFC has grown…
As featured by PEFC International Eduardo Rojas Briales, former Assistant Director-General and Head of the Forestry Department at FAO and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, was elected the new Chairman of PEFC International at the 26th PEFC General Assembly. “The past years have seen forests being put at the…
As featured in the October edition of Business View Oceania Business View Oceania interviews Jason Ross and Simon Dorries of Responsible Wood for our Clean and Green focus. Responsible Wood has represented the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) in Australia and New Zealand since 2007. First established…
As featured by PEFC International The wait is over! We are excited to announce the 2021 PEFC Photographer of the Year, chosen from 5000 photos entered into the ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. The Award went to Vitalii Popkov for his image ‘The Man and the Forest’, taken in…
As featured in Master Builder New South Wales magazine MODULAR building company Fabprefab has decked out its NSW central coast warehouse with XLam’s Responsible Wood-certified Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) product to form the structural material of the floor, walls, and roof – all while using it to provide a mezzanine…
Responsible Wood CEO, Simon Dorries, and AS 4707 Standard Reference Committee Chair, Peter Zed, headline webinar introducing the Australian Standard for Chain of Custody (AS 4707) Taking place on Tuesday, the 9th of November 2021 the webinar introduced and explained the main changes in the AS 4707:2021 standard, providing the…
Statement launched during the Responsible Wood 2021 Annual General Meeting in Brisbane The release of the statement comes at a time where the COP26 meeting in Glasgow represents a significant milestone in defining our common actions to tackle the climate crisis. Nature-based solutions – the sustainable management and use of…
18 community groups have lodged applications for the 2021 Community Grants Program. Responsible Wood has been overwhelmed by the response of community, with applications received by community groups connected to Responsible Wood-certified forests across Australia. This is the program’s second year, following the successful 2020/21 program where six community groups…
As featured by PEFC International This November, our photo in the spotlight is ‘Between Thaw and the Patagonian Forest’, taken by Guisel Soto Campos in Chile. The photo was one of the twelve finalists in our 2020 PEFC Photo Contest. Guisel sent us a video, in which she tells us more…
As featrured by PEFC International The COP26 meeting in Glasgow represents a significant milestone in defining our common actions to tackle the climate crisis. Nature-based solutions – the sustainable management and use of nature to tackle socio-environmental challenges – have a critical role to play in limiting global warming to…
