Cooperative Program in Forest Certification

The forest certification emerged in the mid-1990 as a voluntary process which aims to promote the use of forest and other natural resources in a sustainable manner, linking its logical use to guarantees of its existence for future generations, the economic feasibility of forest enterprises and the promotion of social benefits to all involved. This initiative certifies good forest management through principles and criteria to certify and reinforce the recognition by society for companies and their actions of social and environmental responsibility, based on the concept of sustainable development. In this context, this Program started in 2007 as an initiative of IPEF, forest companies and universities, in order to articulate interests and disseminate information among the various parties involved with the theme of forest certification.

The program has different performance of the other programs of the Institute, as it acts representing forest companies through various activities that characterized the primary link between the certified companies, NGOs, certification bodies, universities and research institutions, input suppliers and services and other stakeholders in the forest certification process for the treatment of matters of interest of all.

Mission

Cooperative Program in Forest Certification (CPFC) seeks to be the link between certification bodies, certified companies, NGOs, universities, research institutions, input suppliers and service providers and other stakeholders in the process of forest certification, for the treatment of subjects of interest.

Objectives

• Follow the interests of companies with the systems of forest certification;
• To coordinate actions between forestry companies and other relevant institutions;
• Monitor, operate and disseminate policies and updates of certification systems;
• Seek competitive opportunities to certified firms.

Strategic Actions

• Permanent monitoring of the FSC certification system concerning the policies and resolutions of interest to companies of CPFC, keeping them updated;
• Participation via IPEF as member of the South Economic Chamber of FSC;
• Organization of the CPFC General Meetings with businesses and other guests;
• Participation in forums related to the theme of Forest Certification;
• Updating the program website;
• Administrative and financial actions of the program;
• Bimonthly publication of materials in IPEF News about program updates;
• Periodic visits to companies to develop further in the certification process.

Main Actions in 2010

First Half
• Cooperative actions to address the recommendations for Derogations which were approved for Brazilians companies.
• Monitoring, strategic actions and dissemination of Recommendations relating to the derogations approved by the FSC.
• Proposal to amend the standards for assessing pesticides by the FSC.
• Monitoring the P&C Review Working Group of FSC in preparing the final version for the new FSC P&C.
• Out of office of Guilherme de Andrade Lopes of the CPFC’s technical coordination.
• Closing a consulting service agreement with the PENSA (Agribusiness Intelligence Center), which is a program of the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at University of São Paulo (USP) – for research work and mobilization of the social aspects to the FSC Forest Certification.
• Closing a consulting service agreement with Equilíbrio Proteção Florestal company – study or treatment of recommendations of FSC Derogation procedures.

Second Half
• Hiring of a new technical coordinator of the program.
• 6th General Meeting of the Program (08/12).

6th General Meeting

• Meeting of alignment work between CPFC technical coordination and the Technical-Administrative Committee (08/26).
• Out of office of Professor PhD Carlos Wilcken of scientific coordination of the program – setting new guidelines for scientific advice as specific subject and demand.
• Definition of the stages of field visits to member companies made by PENSA team.
• Contribution to the organization and logistics of field visits to the work of the Pensa team.
• Update of program information on the IPEF site.
• Meeting between CPFC coordination, Equilíbrio work team and certification representatives – alignment on the treatment of recommendations of the FSC derogation procedures (09/15).
• Preparation of CPFC News – format on online news direct to the forest companies associated to the program, aiming to bring news and updates about certification systems.
• Participation in Economic Chamber consulting about the 12 "key questions" developed by this chamber in order to contribute to discussions at the next FSC General Meeting in 2011.
• Disclosure of elections to the FSC Board of Directors.
• Participation in the Technical Meeting on APRE (Curitiba/PR) – presentation about FSC system by CPFC technical coordination and discussion of a proposed integrated management for control of leaf-cutting ants in Pinus and Eucalyptus forests in the south of the country (Embrapa Forest) (09/20).
• Monitoring of procedures for derogation still in progress in FSC-IC.
• Participation in the FSC Brazil General Meeting (11/18 and 19).
• Definition and dissemination of new Technical-Administrative Committee comprised of representatives from member companies.
• Meeting with CPFC associated in order to align CPFC position on the issues raised at the FSC Review Workshop of Principles & Criteria and definition of its Brazilian representativeness (10/28).
• Monitoring the results from FSC Review Workshop of the P&C, held in Bonn, Germany, with representation in Brazil by Alan Rígolo (11/15 and 16).
• Technical Workshop in partnership with Equilíbrio Proteção Florestal – Results of the Study for treatment of conditions in cases of derogation (12/02).
• Technical Workshop in partnership with PENSA – Forest Certification: training and mobilization of forest sector companies (12/02 and 03).
• Analysis and submitting comments to FSC public consultation of “FSC Procedure – Processing Request for Derogation of the Use of Pesticides” document (FSC-PRO-01-004 (V3-0) (17/12).

Technical Workshop CPFC / PENSA

Main Actions for 2011

• Actions to participate in the FSC General Assembly.
• Submitting motions to FSC General Assembly (01/15).
• Evaluation of the published motions and disclosure to CPFC companies.
• Participation in FSC General Assembly, Malaysia (06/26 to 07/01).
• Disclosure of the main results of FSC General Assembly.
• Action strategies for new members along with Technical-Administrative Committee.
• Communication plan: updating of IPEF/CPFC website with program products.
• English version of program web page.
• CPFC News: news of interest to the CPFC members.
• Structuring new stage of work with PENSA team.
• Monitoring of strategic issues:
    • Pesticides derogations
    • Agreements with FSC National Initiative (FSC Brazil) – definition of Brazilian rules, events, etc.
• Organization of two Annual Meetings of the program.
• Field visits to associate companies: monitoring of certification audits.
• General communications with FSC International about CPFC associate companies demand.
• Administrative and financial balance of the program.
• Develop CPFC database: Survey of themes and its experts that generates products to program.

Team

Technical Administrative Committee
Amata: Alan Rígolo
Duratex: José Luiz da Silva Maia
Fibria: João Carlos Augusti
Iguaçu Celulose e Papel: Paula Endres
International Paper: Robson Laprovitera

Technical Coordination
Biol. Msc. Luciana Rocha Antunes

Partner Companies
Amata
Amcel
Arauco Florestal Arapoti S.A.
Arborgen Ltda.
ArcelorMittal BioEnergia Ltda.
Caxuana S/A Reflorestamento
Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S/A – CENIBRA
CMPC Celulose do Brasil Ltda.
Consórcio Paulista de Papel e Celulose – Conpacel
Copener Florestal Ltda
Duratex S.A.
Eucatex S/A Indústria e Comércio
FIT Florestal
Florestal Vale do Corisco
Fibria S/A
Iguaçu Celulose e Papel
International Paper Ltda.
Jari Celulose S/A
Klabin S/A
Lwarcel Celulose e Papel Ltda.
Masisa do Brasil Ltda.
Norske Skog
Plantar S.A.
Renova
Sguario Florestal S.A.
Stora Enso Florestal RS Ltda
Suzano Papel e Celulose S.A.
Tanagro
Veracel Celulose S.A.