The importance of forest stewardship is more apparent than ever as we face global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. The FSC Global Strategy 2021-2026 focuses on growing our reach by demonstrating the value and benefits of forest stewardship in combatting these challenges and achieving our 2050 vision of resilient forests sustaining life on earth.
Here you’ll find the full list of documents Members need for the 2025 General Assembly. We invite you to visit this page regularly, as additional documents essential for members to be well-informed ahead of GA 2025 will be uploaded here on an ongoing basis.
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This is your go-to space for all editions of the FSC General Assembly Members Bulletin. Here, you will find key updates, deadlines, resources, and stories curated to help you stay informed and engaged in the lead-up to the FSC General Assembly 2025. Each issue highlights important developments, motions, and opportunities for participation—ensuring you are well prepared to shape the future of FSC.
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Members propose motions to prioritize issues or ideas that are important for the development of FSC. A motion is a proposal to change or create a FSC Policy or Statute through member discussion, debate and voting. Statutory motions are proposals to amend the FSC Statutes or Principles & Criteria. Policy motions are proposals for amendments to FSC policies or operational procedures. Use the filter tool to view motion by status.
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After three days of intense deliberations, the FSC International Board of Directors supported, by consensus, a package of documents that define FSC’s approach to tackling conversion and ensuring remedy of past social and environmental harm. This decision was made during the 93rd Board Meeting that took place in Oaxaca, Mexico on 24-26 August 2022.
We are pleased to announce the launch of two new spaces for membership engagement and discussion on the Update of the FSC Global Strategy 2021-2026: A Discussion Forum channel and the FSC Global Strategy Dialogues.
A revised version of the ADVICE 20-007-20 Implementation of FM Digital Reporting has been incorporated into the FSC-DIR-20-007 FSC Directive on FSC Forest Management Evaluations.
FSC is making changes to its system through the Policy for Association version 3, which will become effective from 1 January 2023. We are organizing an informational webinar in November to share what these changes are and how they affect the system with all interested stakeholders.
FSC co-signed a letter to the Members of the European Parliament to support the AGRI Committee's report, which will be voted on 6 October 2020.
The results of the third transaction verification (TV) loop on FSC-certified bamboo supply chains reveal that several certificate holders in China pose a serious threat to the integrity of FSC’s certification system. While some certificate holders have made false claims on their products, others have engaged in actions that pose a significant risk to FSC’s integrity and credibility.
Considering the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, and the fact that the health of our community is our top priority, we believe our only option is to postpone the 2020 FSC General Assembly.
FSC invites stakeholders to participate in a webinar on 2 May 2022 related to the ongoing consultation for the proposed amendments to the four IGIs in the FSC-STD-60-004 V2-0 EN through the ‘small changes’ process.