Forest Stewardship Council [SEP] inception
Forest Stewardship Council
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. The FSC does this by setting standards on forest products, along with certifying and labeling them as eco-friendly.
Purpose.
The FSC’s stated mission is to "promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests". To this end the body has published a global strategy with five goals:
LEED certified wood credit.
In December 2010, the U.S. Green Building Council failed to get enough yes votes from members for a proposed rewrite of the certified wood policy in its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. Since its inception, LEED has only accepted wood certified to Forest Stewardship Council standards. 
The two largest third-party forest certification standards in the United States – the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) – opposed the proposed benchmarks. FSC questioned