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EXTERNAL RECOGNITION FOR RESPONSIBILITY UPM has been ranked as the top company in the forest and paper industry sector in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for 2017-2018. This is the fifth time UPM has received this recognition. The index evaluates companies’ actions to curb climate change and their practices related to supply chain, employees, governance and risk management. UPM has also been included in the CDP water and forest A lists. CDP’s global A list includes companies that have demonstrated leadership in minimizing environmental risks through their actions during the past year. UPM is one of the four companies included in both the water and forest A list.

Global partnership with FSC

UPM and FSC ® (Forest Stewardship Council) have signed a strategic global partnership agreement. Its aim is to expand FSC forest certification using methods that benefit forest owners and to increase the supply of FSC certified wood. UPM has collaborated closely with FSC for several years, working to improve the certification system to suit Finland’s private forest ownership system. UPM will carry on this work through the strategic partnership.

UPM Biofuels receives world’s first RSB certificate for wood-based fuels

UPM Biofuels has received an RSB certificate recognising the sustainability of UPM BioVerno diesel and naphtha as well as turpentine and pitch, the sidestreams from the production process. The RSB (Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) verifies the raw material supply chain as well as the sustainability and reliability of production. RSB is one of the voluntary systems approved by the European Commission to demonstrate that biofuels meet the sustainability requirements set in the EU Renewable Energy Directive. These requirements include greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, human rights and social and environmental responsibility throughout the whole production chain.

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