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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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| 01/05/2009 |
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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| 01/11/2008 |
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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| 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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| 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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| 01/04/2002 |
Look Before You Log
The use of logging moratoria to support ancient forest conservation and legal and sustainable use. ... |
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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| 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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| 01/01/2004 |
The Untouchables: Rimbunan Hijau's world of forest crime & political patronage
Rimbunan Hijau (RH) dominates the logging industry in Papua New Guinea and has interests in Gabon, Equatorial ... |
Greenpeace |
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| 01/04/2003 |
Liberian Timber Trade Fuels Regional Insecurity
Unveils how Liberian logging is destroying forests and funding war. Two versions are available to download ... |
Greenpeace |
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| 01/10/2001 |
Partners in Mahogany Crime
A report detailing corruption in the forestry sector in Brazil. ... |
Greenpeace |
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| 01/01/2006 |
Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests
Half the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is under pressure from an array of human activities, according to ... |
Imazon (Amazon Institute of People and the Environment) and the World Resources Institute |
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| 25/11/2009 |
What a Scam! Australia’s REDD Offsets for Copenhagen
This report by Friends of the Earth Australia and AidWatch examines the Australian and Indonesian Governments’ ... |
Friends of the Earth Australia |
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| 01/06/2009 |
Corruption in the forestry sector and illegal logging - the problem, its implications and approaches to combating it
Through illegal logging much higher rents can be extracted from forests than through legal operations. ... |
GTZ |
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| 04/06/2003 |
The "Equator Principles": an industry approach for financial institutions for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in project financing
Principles adopted by a number of large international financial instiutions. These are commitments to ... |
Equator Principles |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 01/07/2008 |
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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| 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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| 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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| 01/11/2003 |
State Of Conflict
'An investigation into the landgrabbers, loggers and lawless frontiers in Para State, Amazon ... |
Greenpeace |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 02/12/2005 |
Trading away our last ancient forests: The threats to forests from trade liberalization under the WTO
This study argues that further trade liberalisation is likely to magnify destruction of rainforests and ... |
Greenpeace |
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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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| 01/12/2005 |
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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| 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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| 01/12/2003 |
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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| 27/10/2009 |
Report of Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+
Discussion document published by the Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+ established ... |
Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+ |
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| 08/10/2007 |
Fingerprinting methods for the identification of timber origins
Proceedings of the international workshop held in Germany in October 2007. The document collates scientific ... |
German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and WWF |
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| 01/09/2004 |
Timber Trafficking
A report on illegal logging in Indonesia, South East Asia and the international consumption of illegally ... |
EIA and Telapak Indonesia |
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| 01/08/2006 |
Strengthening Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Addressing a systemic constraint to sustainable development
This report arises from the need to take stock of both the Bank's efforts in the arena of forest ... |
World Bank |
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Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy
In 2002 the World Bank adopted a new Forest Strategy. The Strategy presents an integrated approach to ... |
World Bank |
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| 01/11/2009 |
Forests and Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation (ETFRN News 50)
This issue of ETFRN News contains more than 20 wide-ranging articles on forests and climate change; the ... |
European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) |
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| 10/08/2007 |
Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Program Review of Implementation
This review examines the accomplishments of the FLEG Program and the main obstacles it has faced over ... |
World Bank (Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla) |
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| 11/06/2004 |
Forest Certification in Zambia
This report for a symposium on forest certification discusses Zambia's experience to date with forest ... |
Njovu, Felix C (Copperbelt University, Zambia) |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 21/07/2006 |
U.S. Illegal Timber Imports Threaten Progress of U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade Pact; Second Round of Negotiations Conclude Today
Washington, USA - As the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) raises concerns over its likely impacts ... |
US Newswire (USA) |
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