Shaping the Standards: Forest Certification as a Sustainability Solution

Sustainable Forestry Initiative
July 2, 2020
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, United States

…SFI’s standards, when leveraged with our three other pillars of work – conservation, community and education – provide practical, scalable solutions for markets and communities working to leverage this growing commitment to a sustainable planet. …A regular, transparent process for revision of the SFI Standards is a critical part of SFI’s commitment to continual improvement. By leveraging expertise across our network through focused engagement, and by including open comment periods, SFI creates standards that are grounded in science, include diverse perspectives, and benefit consumers, communities and ultimately forests across the U.S. and Canada. …On October 23, 2019, SFI officially launched the start of the SFI 2022 Standards Revision with a 30-day public comment period and a two-hour facilitated workshop at the SFI Annual Conference. This first comment period kicked off a two-year process which will conclude with a suite of new SFI standards and rules for release by January 2022.

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