FSC
What is FSC?
FSC forest management certification confirms that the forest is being managed in a way that preserves biological diversity and benefits the lives of local people and workers while ensuring it sustains economic viability.
Why should I carry this Standard ?
FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifies forests to ensure their environments
are responsibly managed and meet the highest environmental and social
Standards.
Who needs FSC?
- Any company involved in the processing or transformation of FSC-certified products (e.g. manufacturing, repackaging, pack-splitting, relabeling, cutting to size or adding other forest-based components to the product) must be FSC-certified to apply an FSC label to their products and/or sell them with an FSC.
- FSC 100%: This means all wood, paper and/or other wood-based materials within the product comes completely from FSC-certified forests.Â
- FSC Recycled: This means all wood, paper and/or other wood-based materials in a product come from recycled or reclaimed (re-used) material.
How long does it take to get this implemented ?
Depending on the size of the company, an audit can span a few months to an entire year. At the end of the engagement, the auditor provides a professional opinion on the accuracy of the financial reporting done.
Advantage FSC?
Getting FSC certification is a big step forward in a company’s visible, actionable, flow-through commitment to good business practices with the whole world in mind.
Here are a few ways companies benefit:Â
Environmental Benefits:
- Contribute to the conservation of biodiversity.
- Help protect threatened species and habitats.
- Contribute to the maintenance of the ecological functionality of the forest.
- Help safeguard against deforestation to ensure continued carbon sequestration (the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide—forest regrowth is an example of carbon sequestration).
Social Benefits:
- Promote the health and safety of forest workers.
- Ensure indigenous people’s rights (FSC does this by upholding their rights of forest ownership, use, and management).
- Promote local business development in forest communities.
Economic Benefits:
- Enhance profitability through the elimination of wasteful practices.
- Potentially increase sales.
- Enhance market access.
- Uncover security vulnerability.
- Avoid data breaches.
- Protect customer data and trust.
- Maintain the reputation of the company.
- Achieve compliance.
- Detailed VAPT reports.