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FSC Statement on Earthsight Report 2020

Earthsight – a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and investigating environmental and social injustice - recently published a report

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Updated Collection of FSC Policy Responses to COVID-19 Available

COVID-19 has presented FSC with many challenges, the most important of which is to protect the health of certificate holders and auditors at the fr

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FSC Launches Indigenous Foundation

To give a voice to Indigenous Peoples on the continued management and preservation of the world’s forests, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has

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Discover 2B Office: the first FSC-certified construction project

In Portugal, 2B Office has become the world's first construction project to achieve the new FSC project certification.

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The Value of FSC for People

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than 25 per cent of the world’s population rely on forests for their survival. Ensuring that the rights of forest-dependent communities are prioritised is really important to us. FSC-certified organizations around the world must meet certain requirements to prove they adhere to relevant principles.

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Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples make up some five per cent of the world’s population – that’s one in twenty of us. Belonging to around 5,000 different groups or communities, Indigenous Peoples usually have (or had) their own language, cultures and traditions, influenced by their ancestral homelands.
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Solutions for Smallholders

Small forest owners and communities are at the heart of FSC. We have launched a number of different initiatives over the last 25 years, and we have achieved a lot. The wealth of knowledge and resources we have built up was harnessed to inform our latest project, launched to look into new and innovative solutions. It is called the New Approaches for Smallholders and Communities Certification project.
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Workers

FSC has a strong focus on securing workers’ rights by incorporating core labour requirements into its system. These requirements include effective abolition of child labour, elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour, the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation, respect of freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.
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