FSC Verified Impact
FSC Verified Impact is FSC’s evolving approach to monitoring, conservation, and improvement of ecosystem services in forests.
This upgraded system help businesses, governments and forest managers access and disclose high-integrity forest data from FSC-certified forests. By investing in monitoring and improvement projects in FSC forests they unlock the data and stories needed to show their true forest impacts.
More about FSC Verified Impact for Businesses here and Verified Impact for Forest Managers here.
FSC Verified Impact: Overview
FSC Verified Impact gives us a way to measure and verify the positive impact of ecosystem services in FSC-certified forests, where forest managers are already working hard to monitor, maintain, and improve them.
With Verified Impact, organizations can measure the difference they’re making and present that information in a way that anyone can understand it. It’s good news for forest managers too, since they can join forces with like-minded business partners and invest in even more conservation and monitoring.
Connecting forests, companies and climate action
The solution we are developing matches businesses, financial institutions, and governments to ecosystem-services projects in FSC-certified forests. These projects, run on the ground by forest managers, focus on monitoring, maintenance, and improvement of forests.
As a project sponsor, Verified Impact gives you access to credible, verified data around the real-world environmental and social impact that the project is having, so you can communicate this impact to your stakeholders.
Benefits for sponsoring organizations
- Quantifiable data
- Three layers of verification
- Transparent, publicly available dashboard
- Tailored and flexible
- Data linked to your forest footprint
- Socially responsible
How to verify the ecosystem services claims?
FSC-PRO-30-006 V1-2 EN Ecosystem Services Procedure: Impact Demonstration and Market Tools ("FSC ES-PRO") sets out the requirements for FSC-certified forest managers to credibly demonstrate the impact of their activities on the maintenance, conservation, restoration or enhancement of ecosystem services, providing them with improved access to ecosystem services markets through the use of FSC ecosystem services claims.
FSC ecosystem services claims will increase the confidence of governments, investors, and buyers in ecosystem services markets. Ecosystem services claims can also be used to demonstrate the impact made by investments in preserving ecosystem services and contributions towards the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ecosystem services claims for carbon capture and storage can also be used as evidence of contributions towards meeting commitments under Article 5 of the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Meanwhile, explore the relevant documents developed by FSC relating to the procedure below.
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