March 24, 2006—The Home Depot Foundation has awarded a two-year grant of $380,000 to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC-US) to develop a global forestry registry that will help companies ensure they purchase wood that is harvested in a responsible manner.
This new program, known as the FSC Controlled Wood Global Risk Registry, will provide companies, certifiers and other interested parties a practical tool to evaluate five categories of risk associated with wood sources, including illegally harvested wood. The grant will support work that is being conducted in partnership by FSC-US and FSC International Center.
FSC introduced controlled wood standards in an effort to provide an internationally applicable, credible and practical tool to enable both FSC certificate holders and other forest products companies to exclude illegally harvested wood and wood originating from socially and environmentally destructive forest practices from their supply chains.
The FSC Controlled Wood Global Risk Registry, the mechanism through which companies will determine whether wood meets the controlled wood standards or not, will help consumers, financial institutions and other businesses identify compliant acceptable sources within the global timber industry.
For more information, visit the FSC Web site.
