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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/05/2009	The Impact of Corruption on Deforestation: a Cross-Country Evidence In this study, the authors tried to identify a relation between corruption and deforestation. By using ...	The Journal of Developing Ideas (Koyunen, C & Yilmaz, R)
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01/09/2003	Illegal Logging and Illegal Activities in the Forestry Sector: Overview and Possible Issues for the UNECE Timber Committee and FAO European Forestry Commission A paper presented as basis of an expert presentation at the UNECE Timber Committe Market Discussions ...	Quebec Wood Export Bureau (Carl-Eric Guertin)
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01/11/2008	Linking FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements to Jobs and Growth: Potential challenges and benefits for small to medium sized forest enterprises This brief report discusses the potential impact of the European Commissions Voluntary Partnership Agreements ...	Forest Trends (Dominic Elson)
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24/01/2007	Protecting forests to mitigate global climate change A paper prepared for the Chatham House meeting 'Forest governance and trade: exploring options' ...	Climate Focus (Charlotte Streck)
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01/03/2002	Greenpeace Report: DLH: a partner in global forest crime Greenpeace looks at the legality of the activities of a number of timber companies supplying the Dutch ...	Greenpeace
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01/04/2002	Greenpeace: Reports of alleged illegal activities by timber companies operating in Cameroon Reports profile several companies operating in Cameroon. ...	Greenpeace
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01/12/2005	GREENPEACE REPORT - Illegal Logging in Cameroon: How French Government Action is Fuelling Rainforest Destruction Takes a closer look at the Cameroonian logging industry and at France as the largest importer of African ...	Greenpeace
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01/01/2006	DFID's Forest Governance and Trade Programme 2006-2011 The UK Department for International Development's Forest Governance and Trade Programme is a five-year, ...	DFID
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24/10/2005	Partners in Crime: The UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea's rainforests Greenpeace's investigation into the UK trade in Chinese hardwood plywood claims criminal origins ...	Greenpeace
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18/08/2004	Framing the Picture: An assessment of Ramin trade in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore This report evaluates the effectiveness of current implementation measures established for CITES Appendix ...	TRAFFIC Southeast Asia (Lim Teck Wyn, Tonny Soehartono and Chen Hin Keong)
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01/01/2008	Breaking the rings of forest corruption: steps towards better forest governance Corruption appears to be the major factor which prevents proper control of long-term forest harvesting ...	Forests Trees and Livelihoods (Janette Bulkan and John Palmer)
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15/05/2009	Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Submission to the UK Government's Consultation on Illegal Timber This paper is EIA's submission to the UK government's consultation on the European Commission's ...	Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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29/09/2009	The Future of Forests and Orangutans (Pongo abelii) in Sumatra: Predicting Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations, Road Construction, and Mechanisms for Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation Northern Sumatra comprises an area of 65,000 km2 that is both the site of Indonesia's first planned ...	Gaveau, David L A, Wich, Serge, Epting, Justi, Juhn, Daniel, Kanninen, and Leader-Williams, Nigel
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16/07/2008	Communication on public procurement for a better environment Commission proposal to set ambitious targets for green public procurement linked to common green procurement ...	European Commission
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20/04/2006	FSC Controlled Wood Standards In September 2004, FSC endorsed a new set of standards aimed to allow FSC certification of timber from ...	FSC
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01/01/2007	An assessment of tree species which warrant listing in CITES This report explores the potential of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ...	Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands (James Hewitt)
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01/02/2010	Bridging the Information Gap: Combating Illegal Logging in Indonesia Indonesia has incorporated themes of “sustainable forest management” and “combating ...	WRI (World Resources Institute)
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01/01/2002	Law Compliance in the Forestry Sector: An Overview Final version of the background paper prepared for the East Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance ...	World Bank (Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla)
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19/05/2005	DEFRA Consultation on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Licensing Scheme The EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan sets out the European Commission's ...	UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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10/11/2009	Up for Grabs: Deforestation and Exploitation in Papua’s Plantations Boom The plantations boom in Papua is being promoted by the Indonesian government as a means of bringing ...	Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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01/01/2010	Timber Markets and Trade between Laos and Vietnam: A Commodity Chain Analysis of Vietnamese-Driven Timber Flows The Vietnamese wood manufacturing industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, becoming one of the ...	Forest Trends
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15/10/2009	Carbon Scam: Noel Kempff Climate Action Project and the Push for Sub-national Forest Offsets In 1997 three energy giants, American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Pacificorp entered into ...	Greenpeace
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01/07/2005	Europe and North Asia FLEG: the next steps for civil society This Briefing Paper follows on from the joint publication by FERN and Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) of ENA-FLEG: ...	FERN and the Taiga Rescue Network
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01/08/2009	Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services - A Review and Lessons for REDD In 2007, during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 13, Norway's ...	IIED
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01/08/2006	Illegal Logging: A Market-Based Analysis of Trafficking in Illegal Timber A literature review prior to this study revealed that the causes, methods, and perpetrators of illegal ...	Abt Associates Inc. for the U.S. Department of Justice
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08/01/2007	The Economics of Illegal Logging and Associated Trade Background paper for the Round Table on Sustainable Development discussion on illegal logging, 8-9 ...	OECD (Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla, Richard Doornbosch and Michael Lodge)
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01/07/2008	Illegal wood for the European market: An analysis of the EU import and export of illegal wood and related products This report looks at EU timber imports and concludes that one-fifth of wood imported into the European ...	WWF
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29/05/2009	Tropical Forest Tenure Assessment: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities The goal of this report is to present and analyse the state of forest tenure in much of the world's ...	Rights and Resources Initiative / International Tropical Timber Organisation
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09/06/2007	Lazy days at international banks: how Credit Suisse and HSBC support illegal logging and unsustainable timber harvesting by Samling/Barama in Guyana, and possible reforms Credit Suisse and HSBC are two of the three international banks which underwrote the Initial Public Offering ...	Janette Bulkan and John Palmer (emails to janette.bulkan@yale.edu)
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15/08/2008	Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism This report provides an estimation of the funds that will be needed to build capacity in 25 rainforest ...	Chatham House and ProForest (Alison Hoare, Thomas Legge, Ruth Nussbaum & Jade Saunders)
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01/11/2003	State Of Conflict 'An investigation into the landgrabbers, loggers and lawless frontiers in Para State, Amazon� ...	Greenpeace
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01/01/2010	Trade and Deforestation: a Literature Review The amounts of greenhouse gasses emitted by deforestation are high. More than seven million hectares ...	WTO (World Trade Organisation)
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11/09/2007	Local government timber procurement policies Case studies of local authorities' timber procurement policies, from the North East and Yorkshire ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack)
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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10/04/2007	Carving up the Congo (Full Report) Report arguing that international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmenatl ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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07/04/2006	International Initiatives to Address Tropical Timber Logging and Trade This report examines a broad range of international initiatives to address tropical timber logging and ...	Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI)
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01/03/2003	Emerging best practices for combating illegal activities in the forestry sector This document focuses on emerging best practices to bring illegal activities under control in the forestry ...	Global Witness and Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla
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01/02/2009	Challenges for a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes A new report for the CBD Secretariat by EcoSecurities explores the potential for market payments for ...	EcoSecurities Ltd for the Convention on Biodeiversity Secretariat
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01/06/2004	Same Old Story A background study on control of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how thiis ...	Global Witness
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01/12/2005	Best Practices for Improving Law Compliance in the Forestry Sector: FAO Forestry Paper 145 This report looks at some of the innovative approaches being used by governments to combat illegal logging. ...	FAO
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20/01/2010	Controlling Illegal Logging: Consumer-Country Measures Summary and analysis of the range of measures taken by consumer countries to control imports of illegal ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack)
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01/11/2005	The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras The result of a year-long undercover investigation by EIA, the report "documents how U.S. imports ...	EIA
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01/09/2007	Overview of Illegal Logging prepared for Australian Government A report prepared for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to provide an ...	Jaakko Poyry Consulting
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01/12/2003	Illegal Logging, Conflict and the Business Sector in Indonesia This paper addresses some of the existing gaps in information on violent conflict, the business sector ...	InWEnt-Capacity Building International (Esther Schroeder-Wildberg and Alexander Carius)
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01/06/2002	The Timber Footprint of the G8 and China: Making the Case for Green Procurement by Government Produced in an attempt to influence the G8 summit in 2002, this report contains an overview of trade ...	WWF (P. Toyne, C. O'Brien, R. Nelson)
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15/09/2001	Summary Report of the FLEG East Asia Ministerial Conference This document details the conference which took place in Bali, September 2001 ...	IISD
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
17/11/2006	International timber organisation cites financial difficulties The forty-first session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC-41) was held from 6-11 November ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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29/02/2008	The need to cut China's illegal timber imports (Science Magazine - Letters) In the policy forum Chinas forestry reforms (7 December 2007, P. 1556), ...	Science Magazine (USA)
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28/04/2006	WTO: Ppoposals tables on forest tariff, non-tariff barriers to trade Draft negotiating text on accelerated liberalisation of tariffs on forest products and disciplining forest-related ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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04/10/2005	Forest and timber sector expresses concern for economic viability, illegal logging, and the public image of wood: Markets for forest products continue at record levels Geneva - The UNECE Timber Committee analyzed the current forest products market situation in 2005 and ...	UNECE
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06/07/2007	US-Peru bilateral to address illegal logging, boost MEA implementation Civil society groups in the US are lauding a newly-revised version of the US-Peru free-trade agreement ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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10/10/2006	Governments fight illegal logging and promote sustainability through their purchasing UNECE/FAO policy forum discussed how to avoid illegally and unsustainably sourced wood and paper products ...	UNECE (Switzerland)
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08/08/2006	Government procurement and corporate social responsibility policies influencing UN Economic Commission for Europe region forest products markets in 2005/2006 The United Nations Economic and Social Council's Economic Commission for Europe issued the following ...	US Fed News (US)
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09/04/2009	Shrinking forests: the many costs In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the military and police ...	Prism Webcast News
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04/10/2006	Cambodia: Time for Tangible Progress Instead of Empty Promises London, UK ' Cambodia's international donors must hold the country's government to its ...	Global Witness (UK)
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15/02/2008	Cambodia Calls for Regime Change at Global Witness UK - Following Global Witness recommendation that new World Bank President Robert Zoellick take advantage ...	OneWorld.net (UK)
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04/10/2005	UNECE/FAO policy forum reviews roles of governments in timber certification Geneva - The UNECE Timber Committee, together with the FAO European Forestry Commission, held an in-session, ...	UNECE
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15/05/2008	Farm Bill Passes with Illegal Logging Provision Intact Washington, D.C., USA - Protecting ecosystems across the globe and businesses here at home that are being ...	Salem-News (USA)
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30/05/2007	Peru's mahogany exports threaten survival of indigenous tribes and violate international law A new report documents widespread illegal and unsustainable logging of mahogany in Peru. The Peruvian ...	AIDESEP (National Association of Amazon Indians, Peru) and Rainforest Foundation Norway
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24/05/2005	UPM Tests Forest Certification Standards UPM's Parallel field testing of forest certification standards indicates: Five standards promote ...	UPM
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24/03/2006	China accounts for 30% of world furniture market; Second biggest importer of timber with a reliance on illegally harvested wood A new report released today by a coalition of international and Chinese organizations shows that the ...	FinFacts (Ireland)
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