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Revise FSC-STD-40-006 V1-0
To overcome barriers faced by small-scale and community forests, various efforts have been made. FSC is reviewing and simplifying its normative framework. This is an important contribution, but it is widely recognized that this will not be enough to make FSC certification more attractive for small-scale and community forestry. To add value to FSC certification, FSC has developed market access plans for several FSC certified forest operations. However, it became clear that a large number of different disabling conditions in each case made it difficult to implement these projects with an individual value chain approach. So now, we are looking to the collective impact model as well as ongoing value chain approach efforts to support market access.Â
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A high-level event on the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) and tracing the origin of wood. The event took place on 25 April in Brussels and focused how the EUDR and its geo-location requirement can play a role in the wood sector, taking into account the environmental, economic, social dimension of the matter, both in Europe and globally.Â
Globally, our forests are increasingly faced with deforestation and forest degradation. There is a growing need to protect forests with unique social and environmental values such as Intact Forest landscapes (IFL), old-growth forests, Indigenous Cultural Landscapes (ICL) and similar forests. But often, there is disagreement on the right approach to protect or conserve these forests. Â
FSC is doing this by introducing a global framework for discussion and a new method for dialogues.