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Annual Stakeholder Meeting 3 rd October 2019 Alun Watkins, Executive Director, PEFC UK 1 Summary PEFC- the first 20 years When PEFC was established and why PEFC then and now Key Milestones PEFC- the next 20 years New markets for
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Alun Watkins, Executive Director, PEFC UK
➢ When PEFC was established and why ➢ PEFC then and now ➢ Key Milestones
➢ New markets for certified products ➢ Developments in the certification process FM and CoC ➢ Changes in the forest e.g. Climate change
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FSC’s forest certification system was not considered suited to the European forestry
are over 350,000 forest owners of between 2 and 30 hectares and account for 60% of the forest land The cost of certifying individual forest holdings would have proved prohibitive Forestry professionals from 5 European countries came together to found PEFC
Today, there are two well established global forest certification schemes but before 1999, there was only FSC.
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Small woodland/forest
➢ alliance of national schemes ➢ bottom up rather than top down FSC approach ➢ standard setting –based on ISO ➢ accreditation – International Accreditation Forum ➢ Governance – decision making by consensus using UN’s Agenda 21 definition of stakeholder groups
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Setting up a new system, our founders decided to do things differently:
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✓ Material availability in all regions ✓ Local expertise, ownership & multi-stakeholder involvement ✓ Strong National standards meeting & exceeding PEFC International Meta-Standard ✓ Long term investment in National accountability and sovereignty
Global system with National Members & bottom up approach
✓ Multi-stakeholder consensus decisions
Balanced representation in stakeholders based on major groups as defined by UN Agenda 21
✓ Long established, already accepted and used by businesses around the world. ✓ Impartial
PEFC Sustainability Benchmarks based on global guidelines and criteria (UN, ISO, ILO, IAF) 3rd party certification. Certification Bodies are controlled by National Accreditation body peer reviewed by IAF.
✓ Impartial, Independent, Transparent auditing and tracking
➢ Change of name in 2003 to reflect it was no longer just a European programme ➢ UK Government Recognition (CPET) – 2005 ➢ 100 million hectares in 2005 ➢ 200 million hectares in 2008 ➢ First scheme in Asia endorsed – 2009 ➢ First FM Certificate in Africa in 2018 ➢ UKWAS 1999. PEFC UK endorsed 2002 ➢ Global Market Acceptance
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PEFC FSC
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2015 Assessment According to the CPET assessment reports, the certification systems comply with the CPET criteria as follows: FSC: 94% PEFC: 96%
Legal (100% from legal sources) Sustainable (>70% from sustainable sources) FSC All certified products Products containing >70% certified or recycled raw material PEFC All certified products Products containing >70% certified or recycled raw material
In 2005, the UK government assessed both PEFC and FSC’s SFM and CoC standards and found them both to provide equivalent assurances of legal and sustainable sourcing
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Finnish, French, German, Japanese, and Swiss Timber Procurement Policies…
Green Public Procurement
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BREEAM (Netherlands, UK), and SKA rating in the UK
National Green Building Standard, International Green Construction Code (US) and Built Green (Canada)
Development
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systems National members in 51 countries More than 20,000 PEFC-certified companies in 71 countries
Over 318 million hectares PEFC-certified ➔60% share of all certified forests worldwide
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The first scheme in Asia to achieve PEFC endorsement in 2009 was
11,740,469 14,875,556 16,804,386 17,106,890 2016 2017 2018 MAR-19
Endorsed SFM schemes now in: ➢ China ➢ India ➢ Indonesia ➢ Japan ➢ Republic of Korea ➢ Thailand
➢ PEFC certified area in the UK has grown by 25,000 hectares this year – now 1.5 million hectares ➢ 95% of the suppliers of commercially-traded timber in the UK ➢ 1150 Chain of Custody certificates
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industry
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Furniture Fashion Biomass Green Construction Green packaging
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New approaches to woodland management to address threats of drought and increased risk of damage from pests, diseases, wind and fire – acceptance of GMOs? New species planted which can thrive in a warming climate Afforestation to increase carbon storage e.g. Amazon pledge of $100 million in reforestation projects around the world (September 2019). Need to look at certification of Eco-system services and landscapes Emissions Data Transfer Standard
Removal of percentage claims and volume credits Only one claim – 100% PEFC Certified Less confusion for consumers and easier systems for certificate holders. Will require large increase in certified forest area from the current 11% to somewhere near 20 – 25% Plant more trees and bring existing woodlands under SFM How many years??
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Using blockchain technology to simplify CoC process, auditing and reduce costs ISO 38200:2018 Chain of custody of wood and wood-based product ISO 22095 TC 287
Exclusive procurement policies for one scheme is restricting growth in certified area Dual certification growing! The need for two schemes? Good time for all stakeholders to sell the benefits of forest certification
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0114 307 2334 awatkins@pefc.co.uk @AlunPEFCUK