CLIMATE ADAPTATION – CONSERVATION FORESTRY

2.1) Screening of the activity to identify which physical climate risks may affect the performance of the economic activity during its expected lifetime

Performance Measure 9.1 Certified Organizations shall individually and/or through cooperative efforts involving SFI Implementation Committees or other partners identify and address the climate change risks to forests and forest operations and develop appropriate adaptation objectives and strategies. Strategies are based on best scientific information.

Indicator 1. Based on best scientific information, Certified Organizations shall identify climate change risks and prioritize them based on the likelihood, nature, severity of their expected impact to their forest lands or forest tenures.

2.2) Implementing a climate risk and vulnerability assessment to assess the materiality of the physical climate risks on the economic activity

Performance Measure 9.1 Certified Organizations shall individually and/or through cooperative efforts involving SFI Implementation Committees or other partners identify and address the climate change risks to forests and forest operations and develop appropriate adaptation objectives and strategies. Strategies are based on best scientific information.

Indicator 1. Based on best scientific information, Certified Organizations shall identify climate change risks and prioritize them based on the likelihood, nature, severity of their expected impact to their forest lands or forest tenures.

2.3) An assessment of adaptation solutions that can reduce the identified physical climate risk

4.1) Do not adversely affect the adaptation efforts or the level of resilience to physical climate risks of other people, of nature, of cultural heritage, of assets and of other economic activities

Performance Measure 4.1. Certified Organizations shall conserve biological diversity.

Performance Measure 8.1. Certified Organizations shall recognize and respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Performance Measure 8.2. Certified Organizations with forest management responsibilities on public lands shall confer with Indigenous Peoples whose rights may be affected by the Certified Organization’s forest management practices.

4.2) Favour nature-based* solutions or rely on blue or green infrastructure** to the extent possible

Healthy forests are recognized as nature-based solutions

4.3) Are consistent with local, sectoral, regional or national adaptation plans and strategies

Also required in SFI climate objectives and supported with use of SFI Toolkit, NCASI, and coordination with SFI implementation committees.

4.4) Are monitored and measured against pre-defined indicators and remedial action is considered where those indicators are not met

Performance Measure 9.1 Certified Organizations shall individually and/or through cooperative efforts involving SFI Implementation Committees or other partners identify and address the climate change risks to forests and forest operations and develop appropriate adaptation objectives and strategies. Strategies are based on best scientific information.

Indicator 2. Certified Organizations shall develop an adaptation plan to address priority climate change risks, via effective implementation of the SFI 2022 Forest Management Standard requirements for potential adaptive management including: a. periodic updates of forest inventory and recalculation of planned harvests as appropriate to account for changes in growth due to productivity increases or decreases, including improved data, long-term drought, fertilization, climate change, or forest health; b. access to growth and yield modeling capabilities; c. documented harvest trends within long-term sustainable levels identified in the forest management plan, and d. appropriate research, testing, evaluation, and deployment of improved planting stock, including varietal seedlings.

4.5) Where the solution implemented is physical and consists in an activity for which technical screening criteria have been specified in this Annex, the solution complies with the do no significant harm technical screening criteria for that activity

See DNSH criteria

5.1) increasing the level of resilience to physical climate risks of other people, of nature, of cultural heritage, of assets and of other economic activities

SFI standards support both increasing resiliency and adaptation efforts across all environmental, social, and economic sphere.

5.2) contributing to adaptation efforts of other people, of nature, of cultural heritage, of assets and of other economic activities.

SFI standards support both increasing resiliency and adaptation efforts across all environmental, social, and economic sphere.