Announcement: Sustainability definition now includes social criteria

At Chatham House 15th Illegal Logging Stakeholder Update the Rt Hn Hilary Benn MP Secretary of State Minister for Environment, food and rural affairs announced the inclusion of social criteria in the Government's sustainability definition.

The social criteria require that the management of the forest must have full regard for the interests of indigenous peoples, local communities and forest workers. These have now been added to the UK Government Definition for legal and sustainable.