Our priorities for the next five years
The Global Strategy launched in 2007, commits us to continued leadership in advancing responsible forest management globally. It particularly stresses the importance of making progress with forest certification in the endangered tropical forests of the economic south, small forest owners and growing the market share for FSC certified products including ecosystem services.
FSC Global Strategy
Five strategic goals for the next 5 years
Goal 1. Provide Leadership in advancing globally responsible forest management
FSC will expand its solutions to non-timber management objectives, such as climate change and biofuels. FSC will also strive to achieve a more equal and equitable representation of global forest resources, their biodiversity and social benefits derived there from.
Goal 2. Ensure equitable Access to the benefits of the FSC system
FSC will develop additional mechanisms to distribute the benefits from FSC certification more evenly across the supply chain. FSC will also become a more viable and attractive solution to forest managers in tropical regions and increase its relevance to small forest owners, community or low intensity managed forests.
Goal 3. Will ensure integrity, credibility and transparency of the FSC system
FSC will put more monitoring and evaluation systems in place. The information generated will be used to further improve its systems to make them more accessible, understandable and cost-effective.
Goal 4. Products from FSC certified forests will create more business value than products from non-FSC certified forests
FSC will become more adept at managing FSC product data and anticipating market trends. FSC will particularly focus its attention at developing FSC markets in southern markets.
Goal 5. FSC will strengthen its global network to deliver on goals 1-4
