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SE MI TRADUCI ANCHE IL RESTO TI PAGO DA BERE
Fabio Roggiolani
fabirogg@tin.it
http://www.verdinrete.it/verditoscana
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Data invio: lunedì 10 luglio 2000 17.17
Oggetto: FSC

Il 12% del legname svizzero e' certificato FSC. Cioe' proviene da foreste sfruttate in modo sostenibile. Si prevede che tra 4-5 anni il 40% sara' cartificato. In Italia ancora si conta sulla punta delle dita.
 
12 per cent of Swiss timber production FSC-certified by the end of 2000

10 July, 2000

Swiss sawmill
Swiss sawmill "Rey Holz AG" with FSC Chain of Custody. Member of the WWF Wood Group. Photo: Rey Holz

Gland, Switzerland - WWF, the conservation organization, today announced that 12 per cent of Swiss timber will be certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) by the end of 2000, following recent and forthcoming certification of forests in several parts of the country.

In four Swiss cantons - Solothurn, Aargau, Zürich, and Graubünden - various state-owned, community, and private forests have been newly certified. Within the coming weeks, certification of additional forest holdings in the cantons of Thurgau, Geneva, and Schaffhausen will get under way. By the end of this year, 70,000 hectares of forests producing 12 per cent of the country's timber will be FSC-certified. WWF expects that over 40 per cent of the timber harvested in Switzerland will carry the FSC label within the next four to five years.

"This rapid ongoing FSC-certification process is crucial to the competitiveness of the Swiss forest industry," said Damian Oettli, Head of WWF-Switzerland's forest campaign. "Forest owners can show their commitment to environmentally and socially responsible forest management practices, while the FSC label provides them with an economic asset."

This development is the result of the adoption of Swiss national standards on forest certification in June 1999. These standards include - among other things - a commitment to establish protected areas accounting for 10 per cent of the certified forests. WWF-Switzerland, the Swiss Forest Owners Association, and other major stakeholders have signed the agreement.

"The independent evaluation and monitoring, the support of environmental NGOs, and the worldwide presence of FSC certification schemes were factors that encouraged the canton of Solothurn's forest owners to have their forests certified under the FSC," said Thomas Wallner, Solothurn's Minister of Economic Affairs. "FSC certification will also strengthen our position on the timber market as, in addition to keeping our present market share and customers, we will gain new ones."

The demand for FSC products is rapidly increasing in Switzerland. The Swiss "Druckerei ropress Genossenschaft" was the first print shop in the world to be certified. And Migros, the country's largest retailer, offers a wide range of FSC timber products to its customers. The company joined the WWF Woodgroup (Switzerland) - a member of the Global Forest and Trade Network coordinated by WWF - in 1997, and has actively supported the FSC since then.

For further information:

Damian Oettli, WWF-Switzerland, tel.: +41 79 407 35 01, e-mail: damian.oettli@wwf.ch

Urs Spinner, WWF-Switzerland, tel.: +41 79 407 32 70, e-mail: urs.spinner@wwf.ch

Olivier van Bogaert, WWF International, tel.: +41 22 364 95 54, e-mail: ovanbogaert@wwfint.org

NOTES TO EDITORS

1. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization which enables the certification of well-managed forests. More than 180 forests in 32 countries worldwide have been independently certified under its auspices and over 10,000 FSC-labelled products are now available around the globe. Visit the FSC website for more information: www.fscoax.org

2. For more information on WWF's work on forest certification visit its web site: www.panda.org/forests4life .

3. The Global Forest and Trade Network is now operating in North America, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland), the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. At the current rate of growth there will be 800 to 1000 members by the end of the year 2000, with Japan and Hong Kong poised to join the network soon. Visit www.panda.org/forests4life/ffl_gfti.htm for more information.

Fabio Qu@ttrocchi fabioq8@libero.it
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