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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/06/2009	Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Forestry Governance in the DRC This case study on forestry governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forms part of a three-year ...	Mari-Lise du Preez & Kathryn Sturman (Governance of Africa's Resources Programme)
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08/10/2008	Implementation of revised Lacey Act provisions (October 2008) Extract from Federal Register: official notice of new Lacey Act provisions, particularly the import declaration ...	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture
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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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05/04/2007	SmartWood standards for verification of legality and origin The Rainforest Alliance SmartWood program has developed two standards to address verification of legality. ...	SmartWood
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01/06/2007	Environmental and Social Responsibility in Public Procurement The Norwegian government's three year action plan for environmental and social responsibility in ...	Norwegian Ministry of the Environment
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04/09/2009	Trade-offs and Synergies Between Carbon Storage and Livelihood Benefits from Forest Commons The authors of this article analysed 80 community managed forest areas in 10 tropical countries across ...	Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois & Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
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08/11/2004	Illegal Logging and Global Wood Markets: the competitive impacts on the US Wood Products Industry The presence of illegally procured wood fiber affects the competitiveness of American and other producers ...	American Forest & Paper Association, Seneca Creek Associates and Wood Resources International
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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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01/04/2009	Forest Governance, Markets and Trade: Implications for Sustainability and Livelihoods This note discusses the potential of VPAs, by strengthening forest governance, to assist partner countries ...	Forest Trends / Department for International Development (DfID) UK
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01/09/2009	Illegal Logging and Related Trade: 2008 Assessment of the Global Response (Pilot study) Summary of the findings of the pilot phase of Chatham House's initial assessment of the global response ...	Chatham House (Sam Lawson, Larry MacFaul, Duncan Brack)
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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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15/10/2007	Council of the European Union conclusions on Burma/Myanmar Trade sanctions set out by the EU in response to human rights abuses by the Myanmar government in 2007. ...	Council of the European Union
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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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01/02/2009	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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01/03/2009	The Hunter's Whistle: SDI Liberia Occasional Briefing Paper 06 In February 2009, the Liberian President presented three Forest Management Contracts (FMC), totaling ...	Sustainable Development Institute Liberia
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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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14/09/2009	Stable carbon isotopes of tree rings as a tool to pinpoint the geographic origin of timber Illegal logging is a major cause of worldwide deforestation, and demands for scientific methods to identify ...	The Japan Wood Research Society (Akira Kagawa & Steven W. Leavitt)
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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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01/09/2003	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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01/07/2005	A Guide to Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) This Guide aims to meet the increasing demand for IFM around the world by building the professionalism ...	Global Witness
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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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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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12/12/2008	Report of UN Panel of Experts on Liberia (December 2008) Report of Panel of Experts for period 14 July - 20 November 2008; includes section on forests and the ...	United Nations
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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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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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14/01/2009	Impact Assessment: Due Diligence in the EU Timber Market Impact assessment of the potential benefits and disadvantages for the UK timber industry of the European ...	Chatham House (Liz Betser and Rupert Oliver)
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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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01/10/2009	Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Tropical Deforestation: A Global Analysis of the Impact of Protection Status The authors of this report analysed remote sensing imagery across the entire tropical biome and compared ...	Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation Brief 7, The World Bank (Andrew Nelson & Kenneth M. Chomitz)
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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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21/01/2010	The End of the Hinterland: Forests, Conflict and Climate Change Forests have long been a hinterland: remote, “backward” areas largely controlled by external, ...	RRI (Rights and Resources Initiative)
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01/01/2003	Illegal logging in Northwestern Russia and Export of Russian Forest Products to Sweden Survey of illegal logging in Northwestern Russia, the origin of about 75% of Russian timber exports to ...	WWF
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01/01/2010	SFI 2010-2014 Program The SFI 2010-2014 Standard promotes sustainable forest management through 14 core principles, 20 objectives, ...	SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
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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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26/11/2009	Investigation into the Illegal Felling, Transport and Export of Precious Wood in Sava Region, Madagascar The authors of this report reveal that a dramatic increase in the felling and cutting of rosewood has ...	Global Witness & Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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26/11/2009	Investigation into the Illegal Felling, Transport and Export of Precious Wood in Sava Region, Madagascar The authors of this report reveal that a dramatic increase in the felling and cutting of rosewood has ...	Global Witness & Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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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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01/11/2009	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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01/01/2010	SFI 2010-2014 Program The SFI 2010-2014 Standard promotes sustainable forest management through 14 core principles, 20 objectives, ...	SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
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01/01/2005	Forests and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention This toolkit offers: 1) a discussion of the relationship between forests and conflict; 2) lessons learned ...	USAID
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01/01/2010	SFI 2010-2014 Program The SFI 2010-2014 Standard promotes sustainable forest management through 14 core principles, 20 objectives, ...	SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
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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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15/10/2005	Dell Forest Products Stewardship Model Dell's commitment and timeframe for sourcing its paper and packaging from legal and environmentally ...	Dell
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01/01/2000	Illegal Forest Felling Activites in Russia The purpose of this survey is to sum up the data on illegal forest felling operations violating forestry legislation ...	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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19/09/2006	Partners in Crime: A Greenpeace investigation into Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia Report looking at evidence of illegally logged timber from Russia being freely imported into Finland ...	Greenpeace
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01/08/2006	Rimbunan Hijau can't handle the truth Response to comments in the ITS-Global report 'Whatever ...	Greenpeace
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23/04/2009	Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation The Forests Sourcebook is divided into two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book plus ...	World Bank
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20/01/2010	Setting the Story Straight - the US Lacey Act: Separating Myth from Reality This brief document sets out to dispel common myths related to the 2008 amendment to the Lacey Act, which ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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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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01/12/2007	Guinea Biodiversity and Tropical Forests: 118/119 Assessment This report is an assessment of Guinea's forest resources and biodiversity, the threats posed to ...	USAID
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12/09/2009	Great Apes & Logging All species of great apes are (critically) endangered, and their continued existence depends on the conservation ...	WWF
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02/10/2009	REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards This initiative is developing standards that can be used by governments, NGOs, financing agencies and ...	Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) and CARE International (faciltators)
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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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01/04/2002	Chile's Frontier Forests: Conserving a Global Treasure Chile has one-third of the world's few remaining large tracts of relatively undisturbed temperate ...	Global Forest Watch
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01/12/2009	Are You Ready for the Lacey Act? This fact sheet explains what the Lacey Act is, the risks do buyers, traders, and sellers of wood, paper, ...	Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) & World Resources Institute (WRI)
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16/04/2007	United States International Trade Commission investigation into wood flooring and hardwood plywood: 'Competitive Conditions Affecting the U.S. Industries' The investigation Wood Flooring and Hardwood Plywood: Competitive Conditions Affecting the U.S. Industries, ...	United States International Trade Commission
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05/06/2009	Report of UN Panel of Experts on Liberia (June 2009) Report of Panel of Experts for period 20 January- 15 May 2009; includes section on forests and the timber ...	United Nations
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
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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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
22/01/2010	Forest Sector Reforms and REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo	Roger Muchuba, Groupe de Travail, REDD, DRC
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Monday 10th December 2007	The growth and control of international environmental crime A Chatham House workshop, held on 10-11 December 2007, aimed at analysing the successes and failures ...
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Thursday 30th September 2004	EU Expert Workshop: Illegal Logging and Measures to Combat Money Laundering The governments of Germany and of the Netherlands - the latter as EU presidency - jointly invited EU ...
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Thursday 22nd October 2009	Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change No. 2 The second Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change was held in Washington ...
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