The Strength of the SFI Label

The  Sustainable Forestry Initiative  standards have become the fastest growing, highly trusted solution that can support a growing need for products from the forest, as the drive to reduce carbon pollution and waste intensifies. SFI offers  a number of standards and labels  to help customers identify certified sustainable forest products, including: the  SFI Forest Management Standard ,  SFI Chain-Of-Custody Standard ,  SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard , and a label recognizing global standards.

practical choices that will conserve nature, combat climate change, and cut waste and pollution. The SFI label helps consumers choose sustainably sourced products. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their purchasing decisions, and when a product has an SFI label, there is an extra assurance that the product was sourced sustainably.

 There is increasing demand for better packaging . Using the SFI label is a great way to let consumers know that the product comes from a sustainable source, offering better choices for those consumers – and for the planet.

 SFI-certified companies are helping to mitigate climate change through their use of our standards.  The SFI Forest Management Standard requires a number of practices with direct climate benefits, such as ensuring forests remain vigorous and healthy, requiring harvested areas are promptly regenerated, and requiring programs and practices that reduce the likelihood of wildfire or reduce the proliferation of damaging invasive species.

Forests and forest products capture almost 15% of our carbon emissions each year.

Sustainably managed forests also produce wood products that sequester carbon for extended periods - often decades. That means SFI-certified forests fight climate change while they’re growing, and long after they’re harvested.

The forest sector offers renewable products and innovative solutions, including paper-based packaging and tall wood buildings, that  support the circular economy.  

Wood’s inherent properties—as a sustainable, natural, healthy, and renewable resource that stores carbon—make it an excellent choice for construction.

 Using wood certified to SFI increases environmental benefits , because the forest where the wood was sourced was managed to address critical global sustainability issues such as storing carbon to mitigate climate change, conserving water quality, and ensuring a diversity of species.

 SFI standards hold SFI-certified companies to the highest level of species and habitat conservation to help address global declines in multiple species.  We partner with multiple conservation organizations and government agencies on species recovery and habitat conservation, which can have a greater impact than strict protection. SFI-certified forests provide habitat for forest birds, gopher tortoises, caribou, and grizzly bears.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

 SFI is committed to doing its part to address global sustainability challenges.  SFI standards directly contribute to SDG indicators through landscape-level conservation to help conserve biodiversity, and will include a new objective focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

 Buying SFI-certified products  is a great way to protect species, combat climate change, reduce plastic pollution, and protect water supplies.

The SFI label helps consumers choose sustainably sourced products. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their purchasing decisions and when a product has an SFI label, there is an extra assurance that the fiber used to make the packaging was sourced sustainably.