SFI STANDARDS ALIGNMENT WITH SUSTAINABLE REPORTING FRAMEWORKS
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) Standards are powerful tools to provide customers, investors, and regulators the market assurance that organizations certified to the SFI standards reduce forest supply chain risks and create positive nature-based outcomes.
With over 360 million acres/145 million hectares certified to the SFI Forest Management Standard, and tens of millions of acres positively influenced by the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard, SFI is creating solutions on a broad scale for critical sustainability topics.
Recent years have seen a proliferation of sustainability reporting frameworks aiming to provide a common set of criteria for brands, investors, and consumers to demonstrate sustainability commitments. While these frameworks have unique objectives and audiences, they are striving to communicate climate, nature, and biodiversity assurances. The SFI standards were designed to deliver exactly this- providing detailed, comprehensive and rigorous requirements that are data-driven and third-party audited.
The new SFI Sustainability Framework Crosswalk tool allows users to clearly assess and interpret alignment of SFI Standard requirements with these frameworks. With this interface, SFI-certified organizations can systematically demonstrate alignment between the SFI Standards and such external frameworks, often drawing on the same sources of information and metrics needed to meet the standard.
The tool provides a structured crosswalk that maps specific SFI objectives, indicators, and requirements to corresponding elements across multiple frameworks. Filtering from either the SFI standard objectives or indicators of the external framework, users can generate tailored outputs that highlight how SFI certification addresses these areas.
Over the past 30 years, SFI has provided trusted market assurance and continues to revise our standards to reflect contemporary demands for sustainable forest management. By consolidating and aligning relevant requirements in one place, the tool is designed to reduce reporting complexity, improve consistency, and support efficient, credible sustainability reporting of SFI certified organizations aligned with evolving nature- and climate-related expectations.
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Phone: 202-596-3450
TAX ID: 80-0030060