Climate change, population growth, urbanization, poverty and inequality... these are just some of the issues that we as society have to tackle, and forests are an important part of the solution. They store carbon, provide renewable commodities and offer decent work in rural communities, among many...

Pushing boundaries through projects and partnerships, revising our international standards, the fantastic work of our members and the PEFC International Photographer of the Year Award: 2017 was quite a year for the whole PEFC family. We celebrated some of these achievements during PEFC Forest...

Several foresters in different parts of the world have chosen to use both FSC and PEFC certification for their forest management units to provide evidence for their sustainable forest management practices. From a statistical point of view, this means that their respective certified forest area...

So much happened at PEFC in 2016, it is hard to know where to start! We were delighted to welcome new national members from Ghana, Hungary, Macedonia, Republic of Korea, Romania and Thailand. You have to look back to the early days of our organization for so many members joining in one year....

Foresters in different parts of the world have chosen to use both FSC and PEFC certification for their forest management units to provide evidence for their sustainable forest management practices. From a statistical point of view, this means that their respective certified forest area appears in...

Demonstrate your commitment and activate your support to forests and PEFC by becoming an International Stakeholder member! Companies, organizations and associations with principles and objectives supportive to PEFC’s are encouraged to join. International Stakeholder membership is open to...

This one-pager presenst some of the unique and distinguishing features of PEFC when compared to other international certification systems. As the largest forest certification system globally PEFC is the certification system of choice, with over 300 million hectares of forests globally upholding...

From the building momentum in Asia to the start of our standards revision process, 2016 was another busy year for the PEFC alliance – as you will see, we managed to fit a lot in! Especially for PEFC Forest Certification Week 2016 in Bali, Indonesia, we celebrated some of our achievements...