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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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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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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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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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01/04/2009 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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01/06/2009 Slaughtering the Amazon
The authors claim that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon is the largest driver of deforestation ...
Greenpeace

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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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19/03/2008 Borderlines: Vietnam's Booming Furniture Industry and Timber Smuggling in the Mekong Region
Vietnam has become a hub for processing huge quantities of unlawfully-logged timber from across Indochina, ...
Environmental Investigations Agency and Telapak

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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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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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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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01/06/2006 Helping Liberia Escape Conflict Timber: The Role of the International Community China & Europe
In 2003, the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on the international trade of round logs ...
Forest Trends

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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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01/07/2008 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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01/01/2006 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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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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23/10/2009 World Forest Congress Declaration
More than 7 000 participants from 160 countries attending the XIII World Forestry Congress in Buenos ...
World Forest Congress Participants

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15/12/2009 Draft decision on policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of fore
Text of a draft decision at the 2009 UNFCCC conference of the parties on a REDD framework. Along with ...
United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009

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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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01/10/2009 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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01/01/2003 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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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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06/02/2005 HSBC Forest land and forest products sector guideline policy
Guideline to ensure that HSBC's involvement in this potentially sensitive sector is consistent with ...
HSBC

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01/12/2009 Illegal Forest Clearance and RSPO Greenwash: Case Studies of Sinar Mas
Indonesian conglomerate, the Sinar Mas group, has extensive interests in both
the palm oil and pulp ...
Greenpeace

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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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27/01/2010
Lessons UNlearned: How the UN and Member States Must do More to end Resource-Fuelled Conflict
Drawing on Global Witness’ experience in Angola, Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, ...
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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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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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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01/01/2005 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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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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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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01/10/2009 Roots for Good Forest Outcomes: An Analytical Framework for Governance Reforms
Poor governance is a major impediment to achieving development outcomes of the forest sector. It results ...
World Bank

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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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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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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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01/08/2006 Rimbunan Hijau can't handle the truth
Response to comments in the ITS-Global report 'Whatever ...
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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27/11/2009 Global Climate Politics in the Congo Basin: Unprecedented Opportunity or High-risk Gamble?
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities of forest carbon schemes and management in the ...
Heinrich Boell Foundation (Korinna Horta)

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01/01/2002 Impacts of illegality and barriers to legality: a diagnostic analysis of illegal logging in Honduras and Nicaragua
This paper summarises a diagnostic analysis of the illegal timber trade in Nicaragua and Honduras conducted ...
Richards, M, A Wells, F del Gatto, A Contreras-Hermosilla and D Pommier

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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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01/12/2004 The China forest products trade: overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications
This paper - which formed part of the International Forestry Review's Special Issue in December ...
Forest Trends

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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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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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11/12/2009 Voices from the Congo Basin: Incorporating the Perspectives of Local Stakeholders for Improved REDD Design
The scarcity of information on local and indigenous perspectives on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation ...
WRI

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NEWS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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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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EVENTS

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DATE TITLE
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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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Wednesday 8th July 2009 Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change No. 1
The first in a series of meetings aiming to promote learning and frank discussion on the key issues facing ...

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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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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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