What is forest management?
Forest management is crucial for sustaining and preserving forests. However, deforestation causes immense harm, with millions of hectares lost annually, resulting in severe environmental, social, and economic repercussions.
Deforestation contributes to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, causing biodiversity loss and ecosystem destruction. Illegal logging worsens this situation, undermining responsible forest management.
This activity has serious economic and social implications for disadvantaged communities and creates unfair competition for companies adhering to responsible practices. It encourages waste and low productivity by promoting the use of cheap raw materials. Moreover, illegal logging is linked to corruption, money laundering, organized crime, human rights abuses, and violent conflicts, posing threats to international security.
FSC™ forestry products chain of custody (CoC) and PEFC™ chain of custody certification services from SGS.
To certify your supply chain our assessors will visit each site where products are manufactured, transformed or distributed. At each location we will check:
- Product identification
- Product segregation
- Record keeping
With these details complete, and if everything is in order, you will receive a full report and chain-of-custody certification.
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- The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was founded in 1993 as a voluntary certification for sustainable forestry, promoting environmentally sound, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
- FSC offers certification services to companies, organizations, and communities interested in responsible forestry, providing a credible link between responsible production and consumption of forest products.
- The FSC label helps consumers and businesses make informed decisions that benefit people and the environment while providing ongoing business value.
- FSC is represented in over 93 countries globally, with more than 150 million hectares of forest certified to its standards, including 55K+
certifications verifying sustainable sourcing and 1600+ companies licensed to promote FSC-labeled products
ABOUT FSCTM
We are SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.
- SGS is the world's leading certification body in Forest Management, having granted over 7,000 Chain of Custody (CoC) certifications worldwide.
- Our global network operates under the terms of licenses granted by FSC™, PEFC and SFI™.
- SGS certifies wood from forest to market against the most recognized forestry standards, including FSC™, PEFC and SFI™.
- CoC certification from SGS allows anyone in the supply chain to trace the origins of wood products, providing evidence of their origin from certified, responsibly managed forests, controlled wood sources, or recycled material.
- The certification process is efficient and can be completed within an average of 20 days, and SGS can also certify forestry management programs and standards of forestry practice along with CoC, saving time and money.
Why choose FSC™, PEFC certification from SGS?
Together for trees:
Safeguard forests with responsible forestry.
- Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is an international, non-profit organization established in 1999 to promote Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through third-party certification.
- It works across the forest supply chain to ensure timber and non-timber forest products are produced in accordance with the highest ecological, social, and ethical standards.
- PEFC offers an eco-label that helps customers and consumers identify products from sustainably managed forests.
- The organization endorses national forest certification systems developed through multi-stakeholder processes, tailored to local priorities and conditions.
- PEFC is the world's largest forest certification system, with over 30 endorsed national certification systems and more than 275 million hectares of certified forests globally, representing nearly two-thirds of all certified forests.
ABOUT PEFC
CoC is the path wood products take from the forest to the consumer including all processing, manufacturing, transformation, storage, and distribution links. CoC certification plays an important role in ensuring the traceability of wood from its origin throughout the entire supply chain. It enables companies to provide third-party verification of the claims they make to their customers.
What is a Chain of Custody (COC)
Are your wood products ethically sourced? Learn how FSC™ Forestry Products Chain-of-Custody (CoC) can offer peace of mind .
How we assess supply chain
Forestry product chain of custody (CoC) certification involves tracking the origins of wood to guarantee its authenticity through the entire supply chain. It also provides an assurance to customers, stakeholders and investors of the quality of forest management at the original source of the timber.
What is forestry product chain of custody?
Gain a competitive advantage in global timber markets with FSC™ forest management certification services from SGS.
SGS offers forestry products chain-of-custody (CoC) certification, allowing you to demonstrate that your wood comes from well-managed forests or other controlled sources. This certification enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to quickly determine the origins of your wood products and ensures traceability throughout the entire supply chain. SGS's CoC certification meets mandatory requirements and satisfies consumer demands for wood from well-managed forests, providing a guarantee sought by both end consumers and your customers. Partnering with SGS for forestry product chain of custody certification leads to better performing processes, increasingly skillful talent, consistent and compliant supply chains and more sustainable customer relationships delivering profitable competitive advantage.
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