WASHINGTON, D.C. and OTTAWA, ON —The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) announced the launch of a new interactive online SFI Sustainability Framework Crosswalk tool to assess and interpret how the SFI Standards align with leading sustainability reporting frameworks, including the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and the European Union Taxonomy (EU Taxonomy). While these frameworks have unique objectives and audiences, they are striving to provide 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.
“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,” said Jason Metnick, President of SFI. “The Sustainability Crosswalk enables SFI-certified organizations to easily demonstrate how their SFI certification aligns with key sustainability reporting frameworks.”
The new SFI Sustainability Framework Crosswalk tool allows SFI-certified organizations and any interested party to clearly assess and interpret alignment of SFI Standard requirements with these frameworks. 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.
“Our standards ensure that sustainably managed forests play a critical role in addressing climate change, protecting biodiversity, and strengthening responsible supply chains,” said Lauren Cooper, Chief Conservation Officer at SFI. “This tool supports efficient, credible sustainability reporting while clearly communicating the positive outcomes delivered through SFI certification.”
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. 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 aligned with evolving nature- and climate-related expectations.
You can explore the interactive tool at www.forests.org/sfi-sustainability-crosswalk.
ABOUT SFI
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) advances sustainability through forest-focused collaborations. We are an independent, nonprofit organization that leverages four interconnected pillars of work: standards, conservation, community, and education. SFI works with the forest sector, conservation groups, academics, researchers, brand owners, resource professionals, landowners, educators, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, and governments. Collaborating with our network, we leverage SFI-certified forests and products as powerful tools to help solve sustainability challenges such as climate action, conservation of biodiversity, education of future generations, and sustainable economic development.
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Sustainable Forestry Initiative
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