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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Markets Initiative
1726 Commercial Drive
Vancouver
V5N 4A3 British Columbia
Canada
Email: info@oldgrowthfree.com
Website: www.marketsinitiative.org
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: central
Description
Markets Initiative works directly with Canadian companies to develop practical and economic ways to
shift their wood and paper use away from ancient and endangered forest products to
ecologically sound alternatives. We work through the entire supply chain and stimulate the market demand
for alternative products.
During the past 3 years, Markets Initiative has worked with Canadian book publishers, printers and mills
to help them find and develop papers that are free of ancient or endangered forest fibre. Our
work with the Canadian publishing sector has been groundbreaking, garnered significant ecological savings
and inspired similar work with publishers globally.
Markets Initiative is a coalition project of three environmental organizations - Friends of Clayoquot
Sound, Greenpeace Canada and Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter.
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