Standard setters are required to incorporate all new IGIs into their respective processes to develop national forest stewardship standards where a second consultation has not taken place. If your national forest stewardship standard has been approved, the new IGIs would have to be incorporated by 30 June 2020. Seven of our 10 principles for responsible forest management have new or amended indicators.

Principle 2: Worker’s Rights and Employment

Four indicators regarding ILO Conventions

2.1

  • 2.1.1
  • 2.1.2
  • 2.1.3
  • 2.1.4

Principle 3: Indigenous People’s rights

One indicator regarding Indigenous Peoples

3.1

  • 3.1.2

Two indicators regarding FPIC

3.2

  • 3.2.4
  • 3.2.5

Principle 4: Community Relations

Two indicators regarding legal and customary rights

4.2

  • 4.2.4
  • 4.2.5

Principle 7: Management planning

One indicator regarding verifiable targets

7.3

  • 7.3.1

Two indicators regarding Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and affected rights holders

  • 7.6.1
  • 7.6.3

Principle 8: Monitoring and assessment

One indicator regarding tracking and tracing systems

8.5

  • 8.5.1

Principle 9: High Conservation Values

Two indicators regarding engagement with affected stakeholders and assessing and recording HCVs

9.1

  • 9.1.2
  • 9.1.3

Four indicators regarding developing strategies that maintain or enhance identified HCVs

9.2

  • 9.2.3
  • 9.2.4
  • 9.2.5
  • 9.2.7

Two indicators regarding implementing a precautionary approach that is proportionate to scale, intensity and risk of management activities

9.3

  • 9.3.3
  • 9.3.4

One indicator regarding periodic monitoring

9.4

  • 9.4.2

Principle 10: Implementation of management activities

One indicator regarding managing activities associated with harvesting and extraction of timber and non-timber forest products

10.11

  • 10.11.1

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