Plantation Management
Certification
Certification and Environmental Management Systems as a tool to support Sustainable Forest Management
Australia’s plantation growers are increasingly adopting a range of tools to demonstrate and support their implementation of sustainable forest management.
Certification means that an independent, external body certifies an organisation's operations against specific requirements, for example:
- Environmental Management Systems
- Australian Forest Certification Scheme
- The Australian Forestry Standard
- The Australian Forestry Standard Chain of Custody (for product certification).
- The Forest Stewardship Council
Written assurance, in the form of a certificate is provided as evidence that the system or forest area conforms to the particular standard.
- Environmental Management Systems ISO 14000
- Australian Forest Certification Scheme
- Forest Stewardship Council Certification
NEW PUBLICATION: 'A Review of Forest Certification in Australia' Prepared for the Forest & Wood Products Research & Development Corporation by Hamish Crawford.
This review makes the following observations regarding the advances that have occurred with the increasing adoption of Forest Certification:
- 'greater ownership of sustainability performance at all levels within forest management organisations;
- more widespread applicaiton of spatial technology in identifying and protecting environmental values;
- much greater integration and connectivity between forest management organisations and custodians of social and environmental data; and
- tighter planning systems, peer review and internal audit processes that focus on environmental and social outcomes as well as economic performance and legal compliance.'
Download publication: 'A Review of Forest Certification in Australia' (PDF)
