The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently announced that it had granted approval for $24 million to be channelled towards restoring degraded forest reserves and doubling a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forest plantation in Ghana. The project approval came a day after Ghana ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change and is backed by a $10 million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds' Forest Investment Program (CIF FIP).

ISEAL Alliance, the global membership association for sustainability standards, including FSC, has created a new website for businesses to easily find credible evidence of the impacts of sustainability standards.

For 68% of furniture retailers assessed, are failing to put in place robust policies or communications in place for the responsible sourcing of timber.