Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) welcomes the European Commissions Circular Economy Act (CEA) as an opportunity to reform the EUs resource use, including those forest-based. To ensure long-term resource resilience and ecosystem health, the CEA must recognize and acknowledge the true value of forests and forest fibers, go beyond recycling to induce verified circular flows, and embed robust compliance structures and…

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) welcomes the revision of the EU public procurement rules as an important opportunity to make procurement simpler and more effective, while bridging competitiveness with sustainability goals.

FSC supports the EU Commission goal of ensuring that the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) contributes to the achievement of the highest climate and biodiversity protection ambition. For this, FSC would like to share the following three recommendations: 1. Reinforcing the REDII sustainability criteria for bioenergy in light with the EU Green Deal climate ambition. 2.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is the pioneer of forest certification with 25 years of experience in sustainable forest management and is widely regarded as the world’s most trusted forest certification system. FSC uses its expertise to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests, bringing together experts from the environmental, economic and social spheres.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) recommends the integration of sustainable forest management (SFM) certification as rigorous criteria (i.e., such as the credibility criteria by ISEAL) and robust third-party verified impact on natural ecosystems, as a tool to help demonstrate compliance with substantial contribution, do no significant harm (DNSH) and minimum social safeguards.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) recommends the integration of sustainable forest management (SFM) certification as rigorous criteria (i.e., such as the credibility criteria by ISEAL) and robust third-party verified impact on natural ecosystems, as a tool to help demonstrate compliance with substantial contribution, do no significant harm (DNSH) and minimum social safeguards.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a global NGO promoting environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. FSC welcomes the EU Commission’s roadmap and wish to highlight the following points: 1. The new EU Climate Law should state in the preamble and/or articles the negative effects that climate change is having on the environment, society and economy.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the pioneer of forest certification with nearly +50 million hectares of certified forests in Europe, supports the EU Commission objective of improving the overall sustainability and circularity aspects of products. In the attached document we have elaborated five recommendations, backed by evidence, aiming at further strengthening the proposal: 1.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the pioneer of forest certification with nearly 50 million of forest hectares certified in Europe, strives to support the EU Commission in making products more sustainable. In this framework, FSC recommends the following: 1. Design for renewables: incentivising renewables materials to decarbonize the economy. 2.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) welcomes the publication of the new Roadmap towards Nature Credits by the European Commission and supports the ambition to mobilise private investment in nature-positive action. To ensure this initiative delivers genuine, lasting and scalable benefits, both environmental integrity, economic and social value must be secured.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) welcomes the initiative and would like to share two ideas for consideration: 1. A standardized geospatial dataset of all EU forests should be made available. The EU INSPIRE Directive should be taken into account to achieve this goal: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/about-inspire/563 2.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) welcomes the EU Roadmap and strives to support the EU Commission in enabling consumers to play an active role in the ‘green transition’. FSC is committed to give consumers reliable information on sustainable products across the EU, thus FSC calls the EU Commission to: 1.

I respond on behalf of FSC, the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC welcomes the decision of the Commission to develop an action plan focussing on both forest degradation and deforestation, which together, in particular in the tropics, are important sources of biodiversity loss and climate change.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a global NGO promoting sustainable forest management through its certification scheme, welcomes the EU Roadmap and wish to highlight the following points: 1) FLEGT & FSC – legality and sustainability are better together FSC is committed to fight illegal harvesting together with the EU.