Forest Law and Governance: Briefing note
Golden Veroleum Liberia: What does the contract say?
This briefing note by Sustainable Development Institute Liberia (SDI) is based on analysis of the Concession Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), dated August 16, 2010. This brief highlights key areas of concern related to community rights, and shows the lack of justice and equality in the concession agreement.
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Sime Darby: What does the contract say?
This briefing note by Sustainable Development Institute Liberia (SDI) is based on an analysis of the Concession Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Sime Darby, dated July 23, 2009. This brief highlights key areas of concern related to community rights, and shows the lack of justice and equality in the concession agreement.
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A civil society counter-brief on the Ghana-EU VPA
On 3 September 2008, Ghana and the European Union (EU) initialled a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). The VPA is a trade agreement between Ghana and EU that seeks to regulate the trade in timber between the two. It also aims to promote good governance in the forestry sector and combat illegal logging and associated trades. It will achieve this by reforming the policy and legal framework by which the forest resource is managed — including promoting the rights of communities.
This briefing provides civil society views on the Agreement and its implementation from both Ghana and the EU and concludes that successful implementation is crucial for the credibility of the VPA process in Ghana, and the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) process in general.
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| Ghana VPA counter brief.pdf | 246.58 KB |
A civil society counter-brief on the Congo-EU VPA
On 9 May 2009 the government of the Republic of Congo and the European Union (EU) concluded a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that aims to solve the country’s problem of illegal logging and associated poor forest governance. The agreement aims to develop measures to ensure the timber sector in the Congo is both legal and sustainable.
This briefing provides the views of Congolese and European civil society on the concluded agreement and its implementation. It concludes that finalising the VPA is just the first step and that success can only be achieved through implementation that keeps the FLEGT objectives in mind.
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| RoC VPA counter brief.pdf | 419.58 KB |
Process to ratify timber trade agreements
A short briefing note on the processes that leads to operational VPA agreements.
The VPA process is undertaken by the EU on behalf of all its Member States. Although both parties (the EU and the timber producer country) enter into VPA negotiations voluntarily, when a VPA enters into force both parties are legally committed to only trade legal timber. The process can be split into two stages: negotiation and ratification.
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A civil society counter-brief on the Cameroon–EU VPA
On 6th May 2010, the Cameroonian Government and the European Union (EU) concluded a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that aims to solve the country’s pervasive problem of illegal logging and associated poor governance. The agreement aims to develop measures to ensure the timber sector in Cameroon is both legal and sustainable. This briefing provides civil society views from both Cameroon and Europe on the signed agreement and its implementation.
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| Cameroon VPA counter brief.pdf | 437.51 KB |
Is REDD undermining FLEGT
With proper safeguards, FLEGT has the capacity to bring about real improvements in forest governance – but concerns have been raised that this could all be undermined by the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) schemes currently being developed by the UN and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). This briefing looks at the case of Ghana and concludes that the Ghana experience should alert us to the dangers of rushing REDD processes.
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| FLEGT and REDD.pdf | 979.97 KB |
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