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  • Civil society sharing lessons on participation and forest governance

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 07 April 2017
    When civil society organisations in Indonesia began proposing ways to end illegal logging, they knew they had a mountain to climb. In 2002, some 80 percent of logging there was illegally. Corruption and conflict were widespread. Trust was lacking.
  • Briefing: Timber trade flows and investments between China and VPA countries

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 04 April 2017
    The EU FLEGT Facility has published a briefing based on research into flows of timber and investments between the China and the six countries that have signed Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with the EU.
  • Company promises: How businesses are meeting commitments to end deforestation

    by Fern, 31 March 2017
    Fern's new report is based on interviews with some of the biggest global producers and users of agricultural products. It finds that consumer-country governments should apply FLEGT-style VPAs to agricultural commodities.
  • FLEGT boosts civil society self-help

    by Mike Jeffree, 28 March 2017
    After playing a key role in implementing their country’s FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the EU, Indonesian civil society groups are sharing experiences with counterparts in other countries engaged in the initiative.
  • Danish regulator questions sale of Myanmar teak

    by NEPCon, 23 March 2017
    The Danish Competent Authority last week required seven companies to make improvements to their due diligence systems if they are to sell teak imported from Myanmar on the EU market. The case raises questions about whether it is currently possible to place timber from Myanmar on the EU market while meeting the obligations of the EU Timber Regulation.
  • Making Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) work for forests, people and the climate: Civil society recommendations on the future of VPAs

    by Fern, 17 March 2017
    By highlighting the decade of successes already achieved during the negotiation and implementation of Voluntary Partnership Agreements to end illegal logging, civil society from timber producing countries explain where EU policy should go next.
  • Briefing: Addressing illegal cross-border timber trade in South Asia

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 02 March 2017
    The EU FLEGT Facility has published a briefing based on research into cross-border timber trade in South Asia, and between South Asian nations and Myanmar.
  • Blazing a trail for timber traceability in Benin

    by Fiona Winward, 22 February 2017
    Every year, the National Timber Office of Benin (ONAB) produces around 50 000 cubic metres of logs from 14 000 hectares of state plantations. Local businesses buy the timber, mainly teak, before processing and exporting much of it to international markets.
  • VPAs and SMEs in Mekong countries – new website and discussion group

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 01 February 2017
    The EU FLEGT Facility has launched a web page and online forum focused on small and informal forest products enterprises in the context of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) in the Mekong region.
  • Here at last. EU importers welcome first FLEGT-licensed timber

    by FLEGT.org, 27 January 2017
    It’s not often that some planks of wood make history. But the Indonesian plywood and other products that arrived in Europe in recent weeks deserve that accolade.
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