PEFC is an umbrella organization that endorses national forest certification systems. National certification systems that have developed standards in line with PEFC requirements can apply for endorsement to gain access to global recognition and market access through PEFC International. To achieve endorsement, they need to meet PEFC’s rigorous Sustainability Benchmark. This "bottom-up" approach provides a high degree of independence of national processes, and allows for the development of standards tailored to the political, economic, social, environmental and cultural realities of their respective countries, yet in compliance with rigorous international benchmarks.
Members, Endorsed Systems
This independence is also expressed by the mature relationship among national forest certification systems that come together in PEFC. The PEFC framework allows for “sovereign” national systems to join forces to collaboratively promote sustainable forest management and the goods produced from sustainable forest management in the global market. This pragmatic "bottom-up" approach is the reason why PEFC has become the world's largest forest certification system, and the certification system of choice for small family- and community- owned forests.
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