PEFC Certification
International
Go to the PEFC Council’s, interactive database to find up-to-date information about PEFC certified forests and PEFC certified companies including a summary of hectares certified by country.
About 10% of the world's forests are currently certified to a recognized sustainable forest management standard. The remaining 90% should be more closely evaluated because without certification, there is no third party auditor assessing that the organization has appropriate management systems in place by which it can systematically address legal compliance issues in sourcing. This is not to say that just because a forest product is not certified it comes from a poorly managed or illegal source. However, when a product does come from a certified forest, it carries the assurance that an independent third party has assessed that the organization has suitable management systems to allow it to address legal compliance along with other sustainable forest management practices.
PEFC accounts for 2/3rds of the total area of certified forests globally – an area larger than the combined forest area of all 27 member countries in the EU.
Canada
The document below is a compilation of all companies with forestland certified to the CSA Z809 standard (January 2008).
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In Short:
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Both the CSA and SFI standards have been endorsed by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC).
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The PEFC has 194 million hectares certified globally and Canada is responsible for 60% of those certifications through CSA and SFI certifications in Canada.
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Canada has more fibre originating from 3rd-party certified forests than any other country in the world.
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PEFC Canada Milestones:
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March 2005: Canadian certification system endorsed. PEFC now has more than 100 million hectares of certified forests from endorsed certification schemes worldwide and is the first international system ever to reach this milestone.
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December 2005: North American SFI system endorsed. More than 175 million hectares of forests are certified by PEFC endorsed certification systems globally.
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