Did you know the fact that our life is relying on the forests? As the lung of the earth, forests provide our basic needs such as oxygen, clean water, wood, and many more. However, there is a shocking truth about our forests. According to Conservation International, 11% of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are due to deforestation — equivalent to the emissions from all of the passenger vehicles on the planet. Furthermore, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere, as of May 2020, is the highest it has been in human history.
Talking about the forests cannot be apart from talking about the Indonesian forest. Indonesia, as the home of furniture manufacturers, has the third-largest tropical forests in the world according to Greenpeace. However, the data from the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland shows that in the first five-month of 2020, forest loss in Indonesia rose 50% compared to the same period in 2019. In March 2020 alone, forest clearance was up 130% with an estimated 130.000 hectares compared to the three-year average from 2017 to 2019.
These environmental problems forced us to do something better for the planet. Indonesian government protects the forest by applying a timber legality verification system called Sistem Verifikasi dan Legalitas Kayu (SVLK) certification (also called V-Legal documentation). The purpose is to ensure the importers and manufacturers get the wood only from the legal and sustainable wood source.
Why the legality of the wood is important?
There are several reasons why we need to take into account the legality of the wood as the material of the furniture. The main reason is to reduce illegal logging. A manufacturer who has a SVLK certificate means that the company sourced the material from a legal source and provides the necessary information on operations related to harvesting, processing, and trading of timber.
Furthermore, with legal certification, the manufacturer has more credibility of their wood products to export and to expand business on the international market. It makes export business for manufacturers running smoothly through a dedicated system of procedures and SVLK legal documents.
Why SVLK certification is important for the importer?
A new study shows that customers in North America, Asia, and Europe prefer eco-friendly packaging rather than synthetic packaging. More than 80% of participants said it is important for companies to be more responsive to the environment. It means more and more people have an awareness of the environmental issues.
In this case, V-Legal documentation becomes important. Because this document shows that the product passes all the qualifications needed including the source of the raw material. Furthermore, the V-Legal document gives assurance for the customer especially for Europe, the USA and Japan, that the products are legal and comes from a legal wood supply which is in line with the sustainability trends.
How to make sure the supplier holds the SVLK certification?
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