Verified Impact for Business
Verified Impact is a solution to capture high-quality nature and climate data from FSC-certified forests. It aims to help businesses access and disclose high-integrity forest data which allows them to showcase their business’s positive impact on forest health.
Verified Impact:
The Challenge
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental crises increasingly threaten the sustainability of daily business operations. Companies must take bold and effective measures to combat these challenges and seamlessly integrate them into their core business practices.
Developing a clear, long-term sustainability roadmap has become essential for companies to remain competitive and gain market share. Yet, many still struggle to find credible solutions that enable them to communicate their sustainability efforts confidently and with solid evidence.
Growing regulations and frameworks such as CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and the Competition Act are placing greater demands on companies to comply with rigorous sustainability reporting and disclosure frameworks.
Verified Impact:
The Solution
FSC’s Verified Impact – high-integrity data, empowering companies to showcase their sustainability achievements with confidence and credibility.
By delivering transparent, evidence-based data, Verified Impact helps businesses meet reporting standards, communicate their commitments effectively, and reinforce their long-term sustainability strategies.
Benefits of Verified Impact for Sponsors
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Quantifiable Data
With clear, scalable, standardized metrics, the data enables sponsors to take action within or beyond their value chain; and report progress on sustainability commitments including CSRD, CDP, TNFD, and GRI.
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Well-structured, evidence-based claims for communication
Communicate confidently with well-structured, evidence-based claims and impact statements built with the trust and trademark of FSC.
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Credible verification by FSC system to minimize reporting and communication risks
- Quantification of forest management impact data via Ecosystem Services Procedure;
- Data comes from FSC-certified forests;
- Provides confidence in the sustainability claims businesses make.
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Transparent audit records and public information
Publicly available dashboard with high-integrity, independently audited forest data attributes claims to forests, forest managers and their sponsors whilst anonymizing commercially sensitive information.
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Optimize your sustainability strategy
By investing in the forests of your value chain, you take responsibility for and mitigate the negative impacts of your forest operations.
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Flexible for local needs
Tailored FSC standards meet positive ecosystem services impacts across the world and directly support climate or biodiversity strategies with specifically mapped projects.
7 forest ecosystem services for sponsorship
There are 7 types of ecosystem services for sponsorship in FSC-certified forests, allowing you to highlight your impact in areas most aligned with your business and sustainability strategy.
- Biodiversity conservation
- Carbon sequestration and storage
- Water services
- Soil conservation
- Recreational services
- Cultural practices and values
- Air quality
How Verified Impact for Businesses Works
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Forest commitment
Forest managers commit to protecting or restoring a vital service provided by their forest. In collaboration with FSC and third-party certification bodies, they collect scientific data verifying the impact of their efforts.
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Sponsorship
Organizations like yours volunteer to sponsor forest managers and their initiatives. Many forest managers are smallholders, Indigenous communities, or public—private associations that need financial support to ensure the long-term viability of their projects.
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Evidence
Your business receives clear, verifiable evidence quantifying the impact of your sponsorship.
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Communication
Share your verified impact data. These results show your customers, employees, and investors that you’re backing up your sustainability promises with actions that make a measurable difference.
Register Your Interest
Verified Impact is a new program in Canada. We are currently taking expressions of interest from businesses and forest managers and will be in touch to match sponsors with projects shortly.
To register your interest or learn more, contact us.