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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.
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.
The FSC Global Membership Meeting 2020 presented a general overview and highlights of the achievements in 2020, and general priorities and key issues for 2021.
In order to accommodate several time zones and enable the participation of our members from all regions, the session was held in the morning and repeated in the afternoon. Both sessions ran live and contained the same discussions.
Over 400 registered participants from around the world joined the presentations and subsequent discussions. You can find the meeting recordings and presentations below.
During this session, we will present the motion submission schedule and we will have a demo on how to submit a motion through the FSC Motions platform.
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in the Asia-Pacific region.
… discuss members' ideas and relevant topics for motions in 2024. … FSC International invited members to an informative … webinar to launch the Membership Engagement Plan 2024 – Towards the GA 2025. … Launching the Membership …
Over 110 participants from North America joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
These global meetings amongst international members kicked-off motion discussions. It included the presentation of the highest-ranked motions resulting from the discussion prioritization exercise completed by the membership in early September. We showcased the survey results, followed by an introduction of the highest-ranked motions by chamber and a lively discussion with the motion proposers.
In these global discussions, members had the opportunity to discuss with the motion proposers of the two highest-ranking motions by chamber:
- Motion 11/2020 Developing and applying social, environmental and economic indicators for the implementation of the FSC Global Strategic Plan (2021-2026), its monitoring, reporting and assessment
Read the full motion here
- Motion 15/2020 Sustainable Intensification
Read the full motion here
- Motion 28/2020 Overcome Value Chain Barriers by introducing a Simplified Chain of Custody (CoC) Standard for Small Operations
Read the full motion here
- Motion 04/2020 Strengthening the Network by enhancing membership engagement in regional offices
Read the full motion here
- Motion 18/2020 Withdrawal of motion 65_2014 and elaboration of effective forest protection measures
Read the full motion here
We invite all members to continue the discussion and post questions or discussion points in the Motions Platform area for each motion for the session and for further discussion after the event. Having the questions posted means that the proposer can make responses there and the discussion can then continue in this area.
Recordings of the sessions, chat transcripts, and other relevant materials can be found below.
These meetings took place via Zoom.
To view all submitted motions, visit the Motions Platform.
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The FSC 2020 General Assembly website is now live and can be accessed at: https://ga.fsc.org/
The National Forest Stewardship Standard (NFSS) for Vietnam will become effective on 01 May 2020.
This interim national standard will become effective on 01 December 2020.
International fashion brand H&M recently committed to source man-made cellulosic fibres used in their products from sustainable sources – particularly from non-ancient and endangered forests and preferencing FSC-certified forests – by the end of 2025. Through this pledge, the company sought to address forest depletion and deforestation. Fibres would also be sourced from recycled textiles and agricultural residues.
The consultation is open 4 October – 2 December 2021. We invite your feedback via the FSC Consultation Platform.
The interim national standard of Belize will take effect on 26 August 2020.
The interim national standard for eSwatini will become effective on 14 July 2020.
FSC invites all interested stakeholders to participate in a series of webinars focused on the ongoing revision of the Principles and Criteria (P&C), International Generic Indicators (IGI) and other forest management normative documents.
The national forest stewardship standard for Indonesia will be effective by 1 December 2020.
The new version of the national standard will become effective on 22 March 2021.
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The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations in Thailand, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards. Revisions of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards are ongoing, and all existing standards will be transferred to the revised Principles & Criteria version 5-2. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations in the Czech Republic, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards. Revisions of FSC Forest Stewardship Standards are ongoing, and all existing standards will be transferred to the revised Principles & Criteria version 5-2. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations as described in the scope of this standard. All standards are valid until replaced by a new FSC Forest Stewardship Standard.
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