Mission and Aims
FSC’s mission is to “promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests”.
This mission is implemented through a Global Strategy with five Goals:
- Advancing globally responsible forest management.
- Ensure equitable access to the benefits of FSC systems.
- Ensure integrity, credibility and transparency of the FSC system.
- Create business value for products from FSC certified forests.
- Strengthen the global network to deliver on goals 1 through 4.
FSC works towards these goals through activities which are managed and developed through six program areas: Forests, Chain of Custody, Social Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Quality Assurance and Ecosystem Services.
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