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FSC's new 'Global Strategy': a recipe for disaster?Tags: Worldwide, Strategic planning, Certifier conflict of interest

The FSC is currently consulting on the preparation of a new 'Global Strategy' that will guide the organisation for the next 5 years (the strategy is, we learn, open for public consultation only until June 15th although, given that many FSC stakeholders seem to have found out about this only very late in the day, we hope that FSC will extend this deadline). A full copy of the draft strategy is available for download at the end of this posting.

The fact that FSC is looking to adopt a global strategy is no bad thing, and the fact that this is being done transparently is a vast improvement on previous strategic planning processes, such as happened in 1998, when a strategic plan was secretly developed and adopted without even the FSC's members being aware of it...[Continue]

Posted by Simon on 13 June 2007, 15:28 | Comments (3) | Backlinks (0)