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01 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 07 DEMAND FOR CERTIFICATION
Ross Bradshaw reflects on PEFC’s progress over the Key forest and Chain of Custody certification facts
past year and figures
Forestry
Royal Forestry Society 2017 Awards
PEFC were proud sponsors of the Royal awareness, understanding and skills related
Forestry Society’s RFS Excellence in Forestry to the environmental, social and economic
Education and Learning Award for the seventh potential of trees, woodlands and forests and
year in succession. The Royal Forestry Society demonstrate the link between trees and wood
is the UK’s largest forestry education charity. products. The winner of the 2017 award
Founded in 1882, it now has almost 4,000 was Hill Holt Wood, Lincolnshire for its Study
members. The award seeks to recognise Programme that introduces young people to
schools, colleges and universities who increase the positive role woodlands can play in our lives.
In addition, PEFC UK’s Executive Director Alun Watkins, spoke at one of the Sustainability
Summit workshops on the importance of specifying certified timber as a key element of
sustainable construction. We also unveiled a range of new industry case studies which
showcased projects using PEFC-certified timber and promoted the benefits of timber as the
sustainable and responsible construction material of choice.
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Furniture
Sustainable Wine Storage
The 10 Cases is a busy restaurant, wine bar and shop
based in the heart of London’s theatre district. Sorrells was
appointed to create a combined wine storage area and
dining room in the underused basement of the building. The
limited space made the project a challenge, but now the
revitalised area is a fabulous venue which is available for hire.
Packaging
Greggs Celebrate Christmas with Certified Coffee Cups
PEFC was delighted when the Greggs high street bakery chain
added the PEFC label to its coffee cups. Greggs serves a variety of
freshly ground Fairtrade coffee as part of its wide ranging fresh food
and drinks offering and has been a Fairtrade partner for the past 10
years. With PEFC’s distinctive ‘two trees’ label, coffee lovers can be
confident that they are drinking their Fairtrade coffee in a cup made
from responsibly-sourced materials. The Christmas-themed cups were
manufactured and supplied by leading UK paper cup manufacturer,
Benders Paper Cups.
Packaging
House of Fraser
House of Fraser worked with PEFC UK to reduce the
environmental footprint of its customer carrier bags. They
introduced the new bags in 2017 across 58 stores in the UK
and they are all made from PEFC-certified paper. Eight out
of ten House of Fraser customers said they want products
and packaging that are responsibly sourced. With PEFC
certified paper bags, House of Fraser and its customers can
be confident the wood-based fibre used in their production
comes from sustainably-managed forests and can be traced
through the supply chain. The PEFC label on each bag
provides customers with a visible sign of responsible sourcing.
PEFC INTERNATIONAL 06
BEN GUNNEBERG, SECRETARY GENERAL, PEFC COUNCIL
In 2017, we welcomed national members from
Bulgaria, Republic of Congo and South Africa,
alongside six international stakeholder members.
Hungary achieved the PEFC endorsement of its
national system, and New Zealand celebrated its Image © PEFC International and Jorge Romero (JRPD)
first PEFC-certified hectares. Several of our members also made great progress
towards endorsement, with Cameroon, Republic of Korea, Macedonia and Romania
all submitting their national systems for assessment.
While the endorsement of national forest new project to bring sustainable forest (PEFC ST 1001) and the procedures for the
certification systems lies at the heart of management to Myanmar, thanks to the assessment and endorsement of national
our work, it is far from being all that we support of the Prince Albert II of Monaco forest certification systems (PEFC GD
do. Public outreach, bringing the story Foundation. 1007).
of sustainably managed forests into the
wider world, is also an extremely important We once again received a fantastic range of We ended the year in Finland when the
element. Alongside the PEFC International project proposals for the PEFC Collaboration PEFC alliance came together under the
team in Geneva, our members around the Fund. I am always impressed by the banner of Making Certification SMART:
world carry out a wide range of innovative imagination and innovation demonstrated by the theme of the 2017 PEFC Stakeholder
activities to spread the word about PEFC, these projects, our partners and members. Dialogue. We explored the benefits and
sustainable forest management and The chosen projects will help us to link potential for incorporating technology
certification. From exploring the potential urban centres to forest communities, solutions into forest certification. As part of
of forests in fashion to a worldwide photo enable sustainable charcoal to make it onto PEFC forest Certification week, the event
contest – 2017 was a busy year! people’s barbecues and help build vibrant brought together forest sector stakeholders,
forest communities. leading technology providers, innovators and
One of the key ways we support the growth sustainability experts to share perspectives,
of forest certification around the world In early 2016, we kicked off our latest experiences and highlight some innovative
is through our projects and partnerships. standards revision process. The process has applications of technology, to jump-start the
Working this way, we enable stakeholders involved hundreds of experts and thousands conversation about how this approach can
to develop national systems, increase the of stakeholders. Although not yet complete, advance forest certification.
area of sustainably managed forests, grow we have made a lot of progress in 2017.
market demand for responsibly produced For example, we have been able to finalise In closing, I would like to thank you all for
products and improve access to forest and publish both the revised requirements your personal and corporate contributions
certification for forest owners. Particularly for the development and review of national to our common goal of securing a healthy
exciting in 2017 was the launch of a sustainable forest management standards future for the world’s forests.
The 22nd PEFC General Assembly, held 15 November 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. Image © PEFC International
GROWTH OF FORESTRY AND COC 07
Global growth of PEFC membership
PEFC members with endorsed systems PEFC members with systems not yet endorsed
Europe:
96,480,843 hectares
9,449 Chain of Custody certificates
31% 7% Oceana:
24,090,770 hectares
224 Chain of Custody certificates
Global growth in PEFC-certified forest area Global growth in Chain of Custody certificates
313.5
301.6
300 12,000
11,484
272.1 10,976
263.2 10,591 10,744
253.1
250 245.1 10,000 9996
237.4 9529
229.6
217.7 223.5 8797
200 187.7 193.8 194.4 8,000 7688
6166
Certified forest area (millions of hectares)
150 6,000
4420
100 4,000 3545
2901
2362
50.9 55.3
50 41.1 46.1 2,000 1905
32.4 1100
463
0.0 59
0 0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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GOVERNANCE 08
PEFC UK is a membership association which represents a broad range of stakeholder
interests. Every PEFC-certified company in the UK automatically becomes a member of the
organisation with full voting rights at the Annual General Meeting. Additionally, PEFC also
counts organisations which share PEFC’s commitment to sustainable forest management and
responsible sourcing amongst amongst its membership.
These include the Timber Trade Federation,
the Paper and Board Association,
Confederation of Paper Industries, Wood
Panel Industries Federation and the
Structural Timber Association. The forestry
sector is represented by CONFOR, the
Commonwealth Forestry and the United
Kingdom Woodland Assurances Scheme
(UKWAS) and the Country Land &
Business Association.
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Act 2006 for assessing the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using
audit: the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either
intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no
• the information given in the Report of the Directors for the realistic alternative but to do so.
financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is
consistent with the financial statements; and Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial
• the Report of the Directors has been prepared in accordance statements
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the financial statements as a whole are free from material
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and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit
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material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from
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a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors
determine necessary to enable the preparation of financial
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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 12
PEFC UK income and expenditure account
for the year ended 31st July 2017
2017 2016
£ £
522,115
TURNOVER 533,964
Administrative expenses 471,831 437,428
30%
PEFC
Council fees
Turnover:
21% admin and IT
Office rent, salaries,
for 31/07/2017
5% AGM and GA
Meetings including
3% sponsorship
Subscriptions and
5%
Other
INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST 13
Last year PEFC ran its first global photographic competition on the theme of Experience
Forests, Experience PEFC. The contest called on photographers from around the world to use
their imagination and camera skills to show what forests mean to them.
The competition ran from from Earth Day
(22 April 2017) to World Environment Day
(5 June 2017) and not only sought to
showcase the beauty of the environment but
also the diverse ways forests operate, the
people and wildlife living and working in them
and how forests ultimately provide a range of
amazing products.