A key part of India’s forest fibre consumption revolves around packaging. Its importance has been increasing due to retail growth and shifting patterns in the way goods are produced, traded, stored and transported around the country and exported overseas.

To support sustainable forestry, FSC runs a global forest certification system with two key components: Forest Management (FM) and Chain of Custody (CoC).

FSC recently unveiled the Vancouver Declaration, an initiative which asks businesses to make a public promise across the globe to work towards more sustainable sourcing of forest products and endorse FSC as the supplier of choice for certification of forest products.