Forest Law and Governance: Recommended reading
Rethinking timber trade agreements
This short article by Saskia Ozinga for Bridges Trade and Environment Review looks at EU forestry partnerships. The article states that with the voluntary partnership agreements with timber producing countries, the EU has established a new trade mechanism set to steer countries towards sustainable forestry practices. The comprehensive approach taken to good governance has yielded positive societal and environmental outcomes. Current initiatives under the climate regimes focusing more narrowly on forest carbon threaten to undo some of these. The article concludes that the voluntary partnership process could provide valuable lessons for forestry initiatives under the climate regime.
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 rethinking timber trade agreements.pdf | 182.4 KB |
Strategies to Prevent Illegal Logging
This article was written by Saskia Ozinga and Hannah Mowatt for the second edition of "A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy." It compares the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT), the US Lacey Act and schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). The book will be published in December 2011.
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| strategies to prevent illegal logging.pdf | 189.3 KB |
Central America’s first VPA? Perspectives on FLEGT in Honduras
In early April 2011, and following some initial contacts between Honduras and the European Union (EU) in mid-2010, a series of meetings and workshops were held in Honduras with the objective to explore the potential negotiation of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between both parties.
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| Honduras loggingoff briefing.pdf | 479.55 KB |
Forest Governance and the Voluntary Partnership Agreement: Deepening forest sector reform in Liberia
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| Forest governance and the voluntary partnership agreement.pdf | 745.7 KB |
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation
This report is intended primarily for opinion-formers and decisionmakers with a role in making and influencing national policy and legislation on REDD. The case studies show that respecting the rights and realities of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities is the only way to ensure that the forests remain standing.
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 38 countries.
Malaysia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) still far from delivering
Press release announcing the launch of a report by the Network of Indigenous Peoples and Non-Governmental Organisations on Forest Issues (JOANGOHutan). It details that the on-going negotiations between Malaysia and the European Union (EU) to enter into a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) has virtually no respect for indigenous peoples’ rights, as defined in law and upheld by the Malaysian courts.
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| Logging in Sarawak press release | 20.87 KB |
Seeing People Through The Trees Scaling Up Efforts to Advance Rights and Address Poverty, Conflict and Climate Change
poverty, conflict and climate change. This report argues that recognizing and strengthening the property rights of forest communities is the first and most important step towards avoiding impending social and political collisions and establishing the sound
institutional footing needed for social and economic development in forest areas.
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| OPEN | 1.4 MB |
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