The Forest Stewardship Council (FsC), founded in 1993, is for responsible forest management and chain of custody. The (PEFC), founded in 1999, is a global alliance of national forest system worldwide. Brands and retailers first started using consumer-facing communication for PEFC textiles in 2022.3 Source: Textile Exchange based on FAO,4 FSC, PEFC, and SFI. NOTE: Volumes include both certified and controlled volumes. Overall, the share of global forest area covered by FSC and/ or PEFC increased slightly, from around 9.6% in 2023 to In total, around 7.3% of all certified forests were covered by PEFC and its equivalents in 2024, with roughly half of this covered by Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFl), a key PEFC- and the United States. Approximately 3.9% of all forests were Due to the double certification of around 1.5% of allforests, 9.7% (and not 11.3%) of allforests were covered by FSC and/or 1 Textile Exchange estimate based on publicly available information and its own supplier mapping. 4 FAOSTAT, 2025. Database. Accessed June 2025. 2023 and 2024 data was not available at the time of reporting so 2022 data has been used as proxy.