FSC label
What is an FSC label?
FSC certification gives you the assurance that forests and supply chains are independently audited. By choosing FSC-certified products, you support responsible forest management that contributes to the protection of biodiversity, safeguards the rights of workers and indigenous peoples, and promotes transparency and accountability in forestry supply chains.
By choosing our FSC-certified wood, you demonstrate your commitment to forests and those who depend on them. Independent third-party assessments confirm that the wood in FSC-certified products comes from well-managed, FSC-certified forests, recycled materials, or controlled sources. FSC certification reduces the risk that forest products contribute to illegal logging, human rights violations, and the destruction of critical ecosystems.
FSC Label Principles and Criteria
The FSC first published the FSC Principles and Criteria in November 1994 as a performance-based, results-oriented, global standard. The Principles and Criteria focus on the practical performance of forest management, rather than on the management systems that enable this practical performance.
- The organization must comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and internationally ratified treaties, conventions, and agreements.
- The organization must maintain or improve the social and economic well-being of its employees.
- The organization must identify and uphold the statutory and customary rights of indigenous peoples with respect to the ownership, use, and management of land, territories, and resources affected by management activities.
- The organization should contribute to maintaining or improving the social and economic well-being of local communities.
- The organization must efficiently manage the management unit’s range of diverse products and services in order to maintain or improve its long-term economic viability and the range of environmental and social benefits.
- The organization will maintain, conserve, and/or restore the ecosystem services and environmental values of the management unit, and will prevent, restore, or mitigate negative environmental impacts.
- The organization has a management plan that is consistent with its policies and objectives and is commensurate with the scope, intensity, and risks* of its management activities. The management plan is implemented and updated based on monitoring data to promote adaptive management. The associated planning and procedural documentation is sufficient to guide staff, inform relevant and interested stakeholders, and support management decisions.
- The organization must demonstrate that progress toward achieving the management objectives, the effects of management activities, and the condition of the management unit are monitored and evaluated in proportion to the scale, intensity, and risks of the management activities, in order to implement adaptive management.
- The organization must maintain and/or enhance the high ecological values within the management unit by applying the precautionary approach.
- Management activities carried out by or on behalf of the organization for the management unit must be selected and implemented in accordance with the organization’s economic, environmental, and social policies and objectives, and in accordance with the principles and criteria as a whole.
Types of FSC labels
There are three types of FSC labels, depending on the origin of the wood:
- FSC 100%: All the wood in the product comes from FSC-certified forests.
- FSC Mix: This wood is made from FSC-certified and recycled forest-based materials. The FSC-certified materials meet FSC standards for responsible forestry, and recycled materials are used in place of virgin forest materials.
- FSC Recycled: All the wood material in this product has been recovered or recycled, thereby reducing the need for new wood material and supporting a more circular economy by keeping fibers in use longer. The FSC RECYCLED label confirms this through independent third-party assessments.
ThermoWood with FSC label
Stevens & C° offers Thermowood ayous and fraké in FSC. This is only available upon order.