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A Common Vision 
A Common Vision for Transforming
the Paper Industry: Striving for Environmental and
Social Sustainability
In November 2002, The Environmental Paper Summit
was held in California to discuss the urgent problems
of pulp and paper production, consumption and wasting
that have many negative environmental and social
impacts. At this Summit, several NGOs, including
Conservatree, ForestEthics, the Green Press Initiative,
and Natural Resources Defense Council, among others,
drafted and ratified the "Common Vision" document.
This document calls upon the paper industry to adopt
precautionary principles with regard to the use of
natural resources and chemicals throughout the paper
production process, and to refrain from activities
that could potentially cause irreparable harm to
human health and the environment.
As part of these precautionary principles, Common
Vision asks the paper industry to maximize recycled
content whenever possible, and to
source any remaining virgin wood fibers from FSC-certified forests.
It also addresses other social and environmental
issues that FSC is committed to, such as:
- Communities' rights to a healthy environment,
workers' rights to beneficial employment, and indigenous'
peoples rights to control their traditional lands
and protect their cultural identity.
- Ending the clearing of natural forest ecosystems
and their conversion into plantation for paper
fiber.
- Ending the use of wood fiber that threatens
endangered forests.
- Stopping the introduction of paper fiber from
genetically modified organisms.
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Common Vision for Transforming the Paper Industry |
