Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people/Ottawa – Ahead of the world's biggest nature conference in a decade, eight leading environmental organizations from across Canada have filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau requesting it conduct an inquiry into false and misleading ‘sustainability' claims made by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) about its sustainable forestry certification scheme.
SFI is North America's largest forest certification system and is backed by the logging industry. SFI gives the impression that logging operations certified to its standard are ‘sustainable' while having no rules requiring that logging meet prescribed sustainability criteria nor any on-the-ground assessment to confirm sustainability. SFI has long faced criticism from environmental and community groups in both Canada and the United States.
