October 26, 2009 - Environmental Leader | WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) plans to launch investment screening guidelines for financial investors in the upcoming months to encourage support for responsible forest finance. WWF believes failure by the world’s financial leaders to support responsible forest finance will allow deforestation to continue. WWF is also calling for zero net deforestation by 2020.

October 21, 2009 - Reuters | The United States may have imported $3.8 billion of illegal timber products from China last year, much of it likely smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar, where illegal logging is rapidly destroying forests, a report showed. China cut its imports of logs and sawn wood from its neighbour by 70 percent between 2005 and 2008, but trade was still thriving due to bribery, falsified documents and poor law enforcement, the report said.

October 7, 2009 - World Wide Fund for Nature | Gold in Green Forests, a report issued today by WWF-Sweden, says that next to energy efficiency halting forest loss and degradation is the most cost-effective method for mitigating climate change. The annual loss of natural forests in developing countries is equivalent to one third of Sweden’s surface area. Forest fires, the conversion of forests to agricultural land and the cultivation of energy crops are responsible for the high rate of forest loss.

September 30, 2009 - Media Post News | Brad Stewart invites everyone to share in the discussion forum at this link, saying, "I will focus in the next months on the most outlandish, creative, or perhaps even brilliant ideas in terms of incorporating green into traditional media. I'm hoping this exercise will create some connections with like-minded individuals, initiate some deal flow, and act as the genesis to numerous award-winning campaigns. Hopefully, then, we can prevent green from being remembered once again as merely the new black."

September 19, 2009 - The Times Online | They are the must-have accessory for fashion-conscious shoppers who want to be seen carrying home the most exclusive and expensive brands. But there is a dirty secret behind the glossy paper bags often spotted dangling from the arms of socialites. Several of Britain’s top fashion brands and makers of luxury goods have been buying these bags from a supplier majority-owned by a company responsible for destroying millions of acres of Indonesian rainforest.

September 17, 2009 - PrintWeek.com | Paper merchant Paperlinx has dismissed a damning report about the environmental credentials of its North American operations as "incomplete". The Green Grades 2009 report has been published by US-based pressure groups Dogwood Alliance and Forest Ethics, and discusses the environmental credentials of several companies, including Amazon.com and Staples. The report claims that Paperlinx does not have a sufficient policy in place to identify whether specific paper products might originate from endangered forests.

September 11, 2009 - New York Times | This week lawyers for ForestEthics, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting forests, filed administrative complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Service challenging the credibility of the rival label, known as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, or S.F.I. The complaints, which challenge S.F.I.’s nonprofit status, accuse the certification program of lax standards and deceptive marketing intended to obscure the standards and the S.F.I.’s financial ties to the forest industry.