Over 70 participants from Europe and the CIS countries joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in the Latin American region.
Further details on logistics and registration will be circulated shortly and followed by a detailed agenda.
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in Europe and CIS, including:
FSC has opened the call for applications to join a working group to revise chain of custody standards based on results from the conceptual consultation. Apply from 11 December to 31 January 2025.
The first ever FSC general assembly took place in 1996 in Mexico and has been held every three years since then, in different parts of the world. The 9th general assembly was postponed from its original date in 2020 and is now taking place in two parts. The first part took place in October 2021 as the first ever virtual general assembly event and the second part will take place in October 2022 as the first hybrid general assembly event in FSC’s history.
This is a sad time for the FSC family as we mourn the loss of Jaime Levy, world renowned advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and a past member of FSC’s International Board of Directors.
Online voting for the 2021 Board Election opened on 5 July and will close on 11 September.
The Motions process is now in progress, and with the submission deadline of 31 January 2025 fast approaching, we are reaching out to highlight key governance issues would benefit from statutory amendments and to invite your collaboration in addressing them.
FSC plays an important role in addressing two interconnected global challenges, climate change and biodiversity loss, by promoting responsible forest management, including conservation and restoration, and offering solutions for a more sustainable and resilient future.
With the release of the FSC Global Strategic Plan 2015-2020, FSC is declaring our intention to more than double our share of global forest-based trade in the next five years, to 20 per cent.
Members of the Economic chamber of FSC International will meet in Uppsala, Sweden, on January 23-24, to discuss priorities related to the boreal forest and the FSC Global Strategic Plan. The meeting involves members and FSC staff mainly from Canada, US, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Do you remember Tony Mendonça from our last FSC General Assembly held in 2014? He served as the Youth Correspondent, reporting to a younger audience.
The first FSC Global Strategy Dialogues were held on 21, 22 and 23 July 2020, gathering more than 150+ international members from all regions. Thank you to all who participated!
The meeting was attended by international members from three countries of the Region together with FSC National offices representatives, where intensification of participation and representation of the regional interests at the global level were discussed.
Publication date: 1 February 2023
Effective date: 1 July 2023
End of transition period: 31 December 2024
The following requirements aim to ensure that the certification body decision making entity has sufficient information on which to base its decisions with respect to conformity with FSC forest stewardship standards, and to help FSC ensure that there is consistency in decision making between different certification bodies.