Verified Impact – Highlight the value of your commitment to sustainable forestry Getting reward for your ecosystem services conservation and enhancement Forest managers can prove your positive impact in your forests’ ecosystem services and obtain additional income for your efforts - with FSC’s solution to capture high-quality nature and climate data from FSC-certified forests. This enables forest managers to: improve the credibility of their forest management; access to sustainability-driven markets; align with international sustainability frameworks. Talk to us to learn more → FSC/ Emilio White FSC_ Jonathan Perugia The challenge Forests have hidden superpowers, their ecosystem services, that help life to thrive on Earth. However, the current global economic system incentivizes forest degradation over stewardship. The forests mostly receive income for the wood and tangible products but the intangible superpowers – ecosystem services – go unnoticed. This dilemma generates a commercial value that fails to reflect the forests’ intangible benefits, thus the work of forest managers is not recognized adequately. The solution FSC’s Verified Impact – unlocking the true value of forests and enabling investments to maintain and enhance ecosystem services in FSC-certified forests. Benefits of Verified Impact for forest managers Develop high-quality forest data High-quality, third party verified data of your forest management work so that you can use for sustainability disclosures / reporting and track progress towards your sustainability targets. Access to Verified Impact funding partners Secure sponsorships for your efforts of ecosystem services maintenance, conservation, enhancement, and data monitoring. FSC support and network / step-by-step recipe Guidance from the FSC network worldwide to support you through each stage of the process. Get yourself ready on the FSC procedure with our online free documentation set. Communication with confidence Empowering you to communicate confidently how you’re making a difference in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss by data-driven impacts and claims from FSC, a credible third party verification partner. How do forest managers of FSC-certified forests communicate your work with Verified Impact Ecosystem services claims in action Forest managers around the world are verifying their impact with FSC. iStock.com / Photographer and videographer from Ukraine Responsible forestry saves the Cantabrian brown bear from extinction See how a forest management company and a local conservation association joined forces to protect an endangered bear species in northern Spain. Learn more → FSC Italy / Bruno Marić Ecotourism in Oncol Park: Arauco’s treasure in Chile See how Oncol is connecting eco-tourism with the protection of important species in the south of Chile. Learn more → iStock.com / OSTILL Protecting biodiversity in the heart of the Amazon See how a forestry company certified its commitment to protecting species diversity and improving carbon storage in the forests of Peru. Learn more → It all starts with forest certification To qualify for ecosystem services claims, your forest must be FSC certified. Our certification programmes are designed so forest managers of all types can benefit from their commitment to responsible forestry. Corporate forest managers Forest managers must abide by 10 principles to become certified, covering topics like high conservation values to community relations. Learn more about certification → Community and family forests We’re constantly working to find ways to make it easier and more feasible for community and family forests to achieve FSC certification. Learn more about certification → Learn more about ecosystem services claims Ecosystem Services FAQ PDF, Tamaño: 719.65KB Carbon Monitoring Tool XLSM, Tamaño: 632.58KB Carbon Monitoring Tool Manual PDF, Tamaño: 2.87MB Los que elegiste Descargar todo