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… Focus Forest Advisory Group, has been working throughout 2024 to advance the implementation of Motion 23/2020 on … been reviewed and updated A webinar for members in July 2024 to inform about the pilots commencing and answer … conservation | FSC Connect … Intact Forest Landscapes: 2024 Progress Update on FSC’s Motion 23/2020 …
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.
In this session, members had the opportunity to discuss with the motion’s proposers and members. The motions discussed were:
We hosted two identical sessions to accommodate different time zones.
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Over 200 participants from Latin America joined the presentations and subsequent discussions.
You can find the meeting recording and presentations below.
This two-day meeting covered relevant FSC topics for members in the Asia-Pacific region.
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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.
Good news! The Early Bird registration deadline for the FSC General Assembly 2025 has been extended till 31 July — giving you more time to secure your spot at a discounted rate.
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!
… to extend the validity of the interim rule. In June 2024, ADV-20-007-18 V3 was approved to extend the interim rule from 31 December 2024 until 30 June 2026 . By this date, the transfer to FSS … related to Motion 23 and the upcoming pilots on 11 July 2024, 16.00 CEST. Please use the link here to register to …
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.
Assurance Services International (ASI) and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) have finalized and now closed the investigation of inaccuracies in FSC Eucalyptus supply chains in the Iberian Peninsula (For further background see previous news stories).
… July 2022. A second public consultation is planned for Q1 2024 and the publication of a final draft for early 2025. …
… clients in the United Kingdom. … Between May 2021 and March 2024, Join Bums sold large volumes of bamboo toilet paper … in its certified bamboo toilet paper supply chain. In March 2024, a British media outlet published an investigative …
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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 in Paraguay, 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.
This version is not yet effective. To open the current standard for the Russian Federation, please click here . The present document contains the revised certification requirements for certifying forest operations in the Russian Federation, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of Forest Stewardship Standards. The scope of the standard covers timber and non-timber forest products.
Revisions of 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 Forest Stewardship Standard.
The present document contains certification requirements for certifying forest operations from smallholders in plantations in Vietnam, 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 in plantations in Uruguay, developed in accordance with FSC's normative document for the development and maintenance of Forest Stewardship Standards. Revisions of 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 Forest Stewardship Standard.
FSC had decided to waive the Annual Administration Fee (AAF) for all types of certifications in Ukraine from Q2/2022 until the end of Q4/2024, regardless of their certification status.
In August 2024, FSC decided to reinstate the AAF for certifications in Ukraine starting 01 January 2025 in a phased approach.
This Advice Note serves to implement this decision.
Please note that the content of this normative document has been streamlined into FSC-STD-20-007 Forest Management Evaluations Standard (V4-0)
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.
Please note that the content of this normative document has been streamlined into FSC-STD-20-007 Forest Management Evaluations Standard (V4-0)
Publication date: 1 February 2023
Effective date: 1 July 2023
End of transition period: 31 December 2024
The social impacts of forest management mean that forest management is a social as a well as a technical activity. It is not possible to involve all stakeholders in every forest evaluation. It is therefore essential that forest certification and its results should be open to public scrutiny. This is the only way to demonstrate to all interested or affected parties that the certification decisions are justified and acceptable. It is a basic requirement of the FSC scheme that certification bodies make a summary report of each certified forest operation publicly available.
This document provides FSC’s formal interpretation of requirements included in FSC-STD-20-007. An updated version was published on 1 August 2024.
Depending on when the unacceptable activity occurs/occurred, FSC will determine which policy version is used as the point of reference. If the unacceptable activity occurred prior to 2023, version 2-0 of the policy will be applied, whereas if the unacceptable activity occurs in 2023 or beyond, version 3-0 of the Policy for Association will be applied. To access Policy for Association, version 2-0, click here . The Policy for Association is an expression of the values shared by individuals and organizations associated with FSC. It defines six unacceptable activities that associated individuals and organizations and their corporate group commit to avoid in both certified and non-certified operations. The Policy for Association serves as a risk management tool for FSC, protecting the credibility and reputation of the FSC brand and organizations associated with it.
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