Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products Guide and Resource Kit now Available in Spanish Geneva, 22 January 2010 - The Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products Guide and Resource Kit, now also avaialble in Spanish, is a toolbox designed to help corporate managers understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world's forests .

Forest Restoration Could Reach a Billion Hectares, Study Shows Geneva, 2 December 2009 - Land areas around the world totaling more than the size of Canada have been identified as having potential to be restored to good quality, healthy forests, a new study has found.

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The WBCSD on the Sustainable Forest Products Industry

Forests cover 30% of the world’s land area (just under 4 billion hectares) and are powerful symbols of nature and biodiversity, providing a wide range of goods and services that meet essential and everyday needs.

The driving force behind the Sustainable Forest Products Industry (SFPI) project is to find ways to sustainably manage forests to meet the needs of six billion people now – nine billion by 2050 – for wood and paper products, renewable and greenhouse neutral energy, ecosystem services and healthy livelihoods.

Deforestation and permanent loss of forest cover are significant global and personal concerns. Yet forest governance processes and policies are fragmented and not focused on the underlying causes: conversion to agriculture, population growth, poverty and urbanization.

Stakeholder relations historically have been fragile, and fierce competition from non-wood substitute products and from other land uses such as agriculture often exploits the industry’s perceived weak sustainability performance.

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