Verified Impact for Forest Managers

FSC’s Verified Impact – unlocking the true value of forests and enabling investments to maintain and enhance ecosystem services in FSC-certified forests.

Highlight the Value of your Commitment to Responsible Forestry

Forest managers: prove your positive impact in restoring and protecting your forests’ ecosystem services and obtain additional income for your efforts - with FSC’s solution to capture high-quality nature and climate data from FSC-certified forests.

FSC’s Verified Impact solution unlocks the true value of certificate holders’ conservation efforts, connecting you with businesses interested in sponsoring projects that restore and protect the intangible benefits, or ‘ecosystem services’ that forests provide.

The 7 Ecosystem Services Recognized for Sponsorship in FSC-certified Forests

1..... Carbon sequestration and storage
2..... Biodiversity conservation
3..... Water services
4..... Soil conservation
5..... Recreational services
6..... Cultural practices and values
7..... Air quality

With sponsor support, forest managers can communicate how they’re making a measurable difference in the fight against some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and biodiversity loss, with high quality, verified data.

This enables forest managers to:

Improve the credibility of their forest management;
Access sustainability-driven markets;
Align with international sustainability frameworks.

As a trusted partner with an extensive certified supply chain network, we can help you find the right match for your project.

Benefits of Verified Impact for Forest Managers

Develop High-quality Forest Data
High-quality, third party verified data highlighting your forest management work that you can use for sustainability disclosures and reporting, and tracking progress towards your sustainability targets.
Access to Verified Impact Funding Partners
Secure sponsorships for your efforts toward ecosystem services maintenance, conservation, enhancement, and data monitoring.
FSC Support and Network
Guidance from the FSC network to support you through each stage of the process. Prepare and become familiar with the FSC procedure with our online resources.
Communicate with Confidence
Verified Impact empowers you to communicate confidently about the difference you’re making in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss, with data-driven impacts and claims from FSC, a credible third-party verification partner.

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.