Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 15

Hilary Benn, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, opened the fifteenth in our series of illegal logging update meetings, which took place in Chatham House on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st January 2010.

The agenda featured:

• Updates on the FLEGT initiative, including progress with the voluntary partnership agreement negotiations and the draft ‘due diligence’ regulation, and on the REDD discussions in the climate change regime.

• Latest developments in public procurement policies.

• The development of systems of indicators of progress in dealing with illegal logging, forest governance and transparency.

• Sessions on sustainable forest management; Brazil; US free trade agreements and illegal logging; and latest research updates.

The full agenda is available below.

All the presentations from this meeting are posted on this page below; a full report of the discussions will be available shortly.

CONTACT

Lucy Ellinas
logging.registration@chathamhouse.org.uk

LINKED PRESENTATIONS:
Analysis and Perspectives of the Peruvian Forest Sector 2008-2009 Lucila Pautrat, Institute of Public Policies, Regulations and Sustainable Development

Biomass Estimations Through Remote Sensing - The Value of the Third Dimension to Mapping Charles Crossthwaite-Eyre, Eyre Consulting

A Concept in Management Transparency Carlos Fabiano Cardoso, IBAMA

Due Diligence Regulation Proposal José María Solano López, European Council

EU FLEGT Update Julia Falconer, European Commission

Fighting Illegal Logging in the Brazilian Amazon: Progress and Challenges Adalberto Verissimo, Imazon

The Forest Transparency Initiative Matt Steil, WRI

Illegal Chainsaw Milling in Ghana: Using Multi-stakeholder Dialogue to Seek Policy Solutions Marieke Wit, Tropenbos

Illegal Timber Legislation: Where are we now? Anke Schulmeister, WWF

Is Sustainable Forestry the Best Option? Hervé Bourgignon, IFIA

Is There a Need for a Global Legality Verification System? Richard Donovan, Rainforest Alliance

Moving SFM from Exploitation to Restoration Within a Finite Forest Peter Wood, Global Witness

Reaction to Due Diligence Regulation by the European Timber Trade Federation André de Boer, European Timber Importers Federation

A REDD Revolution in Copenhagen? John Lanchbery, RSPB

Sao Paolo's Public Procurement Initiative Carlos Beduschi, Centro de Programas de Uso Sustentável, Secretaria de Meio Ambiente do Estado de Sao Paolo

SFC Ad Hoc Working Group on Public Procurement of Wood and Wood-Based Products Roland Beck, European Commission

Social Issues in Timber Procurement Policies Duncan Brack, Chatham House

Speech by the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP

Transparency Report Card David Young, Global Witness

UK Government’s Timber Procurement Policy and the Inclusion of Social Criteria Sofie Tind Nielsen, CPET

When are Trade-offs Additive? Local Understanding of SFM and its Relevance to Livelihoods John Palmer, Forest Management Trust


LINK TO AGENDA (281k)
LINK TO MEETING REPORT (326k)

edited:07/02/2010
uploaded:06/08/2009