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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
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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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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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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01/01/2004	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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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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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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