Resource description:
The FSC Ecosystem Services Procedure provides new tools to strengthen incentives for the protection of ecosystem services:
- Impact verification: The procedure provides a global approach that FSC certificate holders can use to demonstrate the impact of their forest management activities on ecosystem services.
- Ecosystem Services Claims: Verified impacts give rise to FSC ecosystem services claims, which will provide governments, investors, buyers, and businesses with assurance that the impacts they are paying for do preserve ecosystem services
Author/Contact:
Rosario Galán
Policy Manager - Ecosystem Services
r.galan@fsc.org
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The FSC Ecosystem Services Procedure provides new tools to strengthen incentives for the protection of ecosystem services:
- Impact verification: The procedure provides a global approach that FSC certificate holders can use to demonstrate the impact of their forest management activities on ecosystem services.
- Ecosystem Services Claims: Verified impacts give rise to FSC ecosystem services claims, which will provide governments, investors, buyers, and businesses with assurance that the impacts they are paying for do preserve ecosystem services
Additional information:
Global pilot tests: https://ic.fsc.org/en/what-is-fsc/what-we-do/ecosystemservices/ecosystemservices-for-forest-managers
Revised version was published in 2025: Key changes include improved and new ecosystem services impacts, clearer requirements for forest management groups, more robust impact demonstration requirements, a new revenue sharing mechanism, clearer promotion and sponsorship requirements and other improvements. https://fsc.org/en/newscentre/general-news/the-revised-ecosystem-services-procedure-v2-0-is-published
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Accessibility:
- International Standards (eg. ISO)
Development stage:
- Full, working product
Quality assurance:
- International Standards (eg. ISO)
- FSC Ecosystem Services Procedure (735.87 KB)