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Sustainable Forest Management in Denmark: FSC Offices' Initiatives and Challenges

Explore the 8th-10th March 2017 FSC meeting in Riga, Latvia, covering Danish FSC office activities, focus on supply chains, timber species, and forest certification. Learn about the Danish smallholder challenge and the revision of forest standards.

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Sustainable Forest Management in Denmark: FSC Offices' Initiatives and Challenges

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  1. FSC Baltic meeting 8th -10th March 2017Riga, Latvia

  2. Danish FSC office • 6 full time staff + student support and interns • Based in Århus

  3. FSC Denmarks members • Economic chamber 78 members • Environmental chamber 6 members • Social chamber 3 members

  4. Main projects Focus on supply chains /CoC members and not forests • Supporting supply and creating demand through policies and implementation • Public sector procurement • Constuction sector policies Lesser know timber species Design award 11th year Forest standard from 2004

  5. Denmark Total forested area: ~607.000 ha / 14 % Number of forest/forest owners: ~28.000 Ownership: Source: Skov og plantager 2013. Københavns Universitet

  6. DenmarkFSC groups vs individual certificates 3 group certificates Hededanmark: 6 forests (1 private) Skovdyrkerne: 7 forests (5 private) KW-plan: 1 forests (0 private) 2 individual certifcates The state forests 1 private

  7. DenmarkFSC certified forests • 47 forests are over 1000 ha, they make up 24% (161.104 ha) of the total forested area. • Five forests of these are FSC certified and make up 72%, all publicly owned. • State forests (106.289 ha), • Bornholm (1.969ha), Århus (1.516 ha), Herning (1.754 ha), Ålborg (1.252 ha). • Only 2 forests under 100 ha are FSC certified.

  8. Forest standard revision status • Review initiated in October 2012 • SDG

  9. Forest standard revision status • Consultation on first draft (14th Dec 2016-14th Feb 2017) • Next: • Development of ‘small-forest standard’ • Forest tests planned for April

  10. The Danish smallholder challenge

  11. Denmark How many of the forests of what size?50% <10 ha90% < 20 ha 97% < 100 ha

  12. DenmarkHow much of the forest area consists of forest of what size?1/3 consists of forest <20 ha~1/4 consists of 47 forests <1000 ha½ consists of forest <100 ha Source: Skov og plantager 2013. Københavns Universitet

  13. DenmarkHow much is FSC certified? 5 FSC forests (making up 75%) 0 FSC forests 2 FSC forests 9 FSC forests Source: Skov og plantager 2013. Københavns Universitet

  14. The Danish smallholder challenge • Burden for meeting FSCs requirements for small forest holders should match the cost of certification. • Current national standard not applicable • Too much paperwork • Registering/documentation • Management plan and monitoring report publicly available • Set a side areas The SDG attempts to address this in new standard -Support with guidance –’translate’ standard

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