
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in the Asia-Pacific region.
The BoD Elections 2023 have been announced. Each FSC member was invited to vote for six candidates to join the FSC International Board of Directors. View the results here.
Over 90 participants from Africa joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
Over 70 participants from Asia-Pacific joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
In this session, we launched the agenda for the Motion Discussions in 2022 and we presented the results of the Prioritization Survey for the discussion of FSC Policy Motions 2022.
Our members also had the opportunity to start the discussion with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions that were discussed in this session are:
In both global events, we presented the voting prioritization survey results, the agenda for the launch of the Statutory Requirements, an overview of all the motion discussions in 2020/2021, and the next steps of the motions process. Additionally, members were able to ask questions regarding the upcoming activities towards the Virtual GA 2021.
You can find the recordings here:
Morning Session:
Evening Session:
This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in Asia-Pacific.
This two-day meeting will cover relevant FSC topics for members in Africa. The following topics have so far been recommended for the agenda:
In this session, members had the opportunity to discuss with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions for this discussion were:
We hosted two identical sessions to accommodate different time zones.
FSC is revising the standard that provide the requirements that shall be applied by FSC-accredited certification bodies to assess conformity of forest management enterprises against forest stewardship standards. We invite interested stakeholders to participate in this consultation and provide comments to support the improvement of this standard by 16 July 2022.
FSC has introduced transaction verification for all forests in China, covering FSC claims made between 1 January and 31 December 2019.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in collaboration with Assurance Services International (ASI) launched a transaction verification (TV) loop on FSC-certified teak in June 2022.
FSC is introducing changes to its Policy for Association (FSC-POL-01-004) (PfA). The changes established via version 3 of the PfA (PfA v3) were approved by the Board of Directors of FSC International (in accordance with its statutory authority to issue and define the PfA) and will come into effect on 1 January 2023.
FSC-PRO-01-001 provides the process steps for the development, review, revision, and withdrawal of all international normative documents and is open for consultation until 7 January 2022 via the FSC Consultation Platform.
The public consultation on the first draft of the standard FSC International Generic Indicators for the use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides is extended until 30 April 2020.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is developing a tool to conduct a risk assessment of organizations that want to join or re-join the FSC system to ensure that their values are aligned with those of FSC.
Barbara Bramble has been appointed as the Chairperson of the International Board of Directors of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Barbara’s term of office runs from 1 January to 31 December 2020.