CSA's SFM Program: Market access through sustainable forest management

Abstract

A growing number of national and international buyers are now specifying "certified" forest products in their procurement policies. In response, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has worked with a diverse range of stakeholders interested in Sustainable Forest Management in Canada to develop CSA's Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Program. CSA's SFM Program consists of four distinct, yet inter-related components: CAN/CSA Z809, Canada's National Standard for Sustainable Forest Management; chain of custody for forest products; product marking with CSA International's SFM Mark; and, CSA International's Forest Products Group. When these components are combined they provide a comprehensive, credible, and affordable forest certification and product-marking program. The list of organizations accepting forest products certified through the CSA SFM Program is growing within Canada, the United States and abroad. Key words: Canadian Standards Association (CSA), forest certification, certified forest products, chain of custody, product marking, criteria and indicators.

Environmental Indicators for the Evaluation of Wood Products in Consideration of Site-Dependent Aspects: A Review and Integrated Approach

“…By counting the occurrence of the different combinations, the main research fields of the sample of this review could be identified (see Figure 4 and Table S2). Forestry-related studies have set their focus in most cases on a comparison of different forest management strategies [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] or specific ecolabels and certification schemes such as FSC and PEFC Forestry-related studies have set their focus in most cases on a comparison of different forest management strategies [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] or specific ecolabels and certification schemes such as FSC and PEFC Forestry-related studies have set their focus in most cases on a comparison of different forest management strategies [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] or specific ecolabels and certification schemes such as FSC and PEFC [11,[106][107][108][109] in different geographical regions. FWCs are sometimes only partly covered by studies comprising the processes from harvest to the sawmill gate [110], or from harvest to intermediate wood products leaving the sawmill gate (e.g., sawn wood and by-products) [111], or further on to the end consumer wood product leaving the factory gate as an engineered wood product (e.g., plywood, particle boards, fiber boards, laminates, or veneers).…”

Locally defined measures of successful forest co-management: A case study of Tl'azt'en Nation and the John Prince Research Forest.

“…The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an environmental organization, created a set of C&I to certify forest management 15 operations and their forest products as compliant with environmental stewardship standards (FSC 2005). The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) also takes a market-based approach, certifying forest management as sustainable according to C&I established by the CCFM (Johnson and Borgiel 2003). These C&I establish a minimum level of compliance.…”