Domtar embraces sustainable forest certification
Greenpeace congratulates Domtar and urges competitors to follow suit
TORONTO, Nov. 14 - Today, Domtar Inc. (DTC - TSX/NYSE) announced that it intends to pursue sustainable certification of all its forest
operations or 9 million hectares of forests. The certification will occur
according to the standards of Forest Stewardship Council standards, the only
certification system supported by Greenpeace.
Less than 13% of all tenured forests are certified as sustainable in
Canada. Besides Domtar and Tembec, most other major forestry companies in
Canada like Abitibi-Consolidated, Bowater, Canfor, Kimberly-Clark, Kruger,
Nexfor, Weyerhaueser, Weldwood, and Tolko have not taken steps to be certified
as sustainable. These companies continue to devastate the Boreal forest in
Canada.
"Greenpeace congratulates Domtar for their bold and progressive bid to
become a wholly 'sustainably certified' company," said Richard Brooks, forest
campaigner with Greenpeace. "Now it's time for Domtar's competitors to stop
being laggards in forest protection and take immediate steps to match this
announcement. We know that forest destruction increasingly doesn't pay in the
marketplace."
Certified products are shown to be given purchasing preference by the
public and many consumer companies. |
