Our forests are under threat — here’s how they are certified

Large-scale destruction of forests has always been a concern for the environment, but with climate change, deforestation has become a critically sensitive issue globally in recent years..

At the Glasgow climate meeting in 2021, more than 100 countries took a pledge to stop, and start reversing, deforestation by 2030...

This is where the certification industry comes in offering a multi-layer audit system that seeks to authenticate the origin, legality, and sustainability of forest-based products such as timber, furniture, handicraft, paper and pulp, rubber, and many more...

There are two major international standards (there are a few other less widely accepted ones as well) for sustainable management of forests and forest-based products..

Long before private certification bodies set up operations in India, the government had moved to define national standards for the management of forests...