Sentences with phrase «illegal timber trading»

To regain its certification FSC requires that DLH pays compensation to the rural communities affected by their recent illegal timber trading.

We've exposed illegal fishing and human rights violations at sea, illegal timber trading across the globe, and tracked how dirty energy money in politics affect the policies around climate change.

Many of the impacted species — found in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia — are protected by law, but such measures have not stopped a growing illegal timber trade.

A new illegal trade «alliance» Yesterday, in an effort to chip away at the illegal timber trade, which is a key driver of deforestation along with agricultural expansion, a coalition of businesses, paper organizations and international groups banded together to form the Forest Legality Alliance.

Source: Global Witness field investigation; Yunnan Province, China; May 2006 [6] In October 2005, in direct response to Global Witness» report «A Choice for China» the governments of both Burma and China publicly denied that any illegal timber trade took place between the two countries.

However, in the last six months the two governments have had at least three high - level meetings on curbing the illegal timber trade: in November 2005, February 2006 and April 2006.

Global Witness submitted evidence concerning DLH, whose global headquarters is based in Denmark, to the Danish Nature Agency, the authority responsible for enforcing the EU's Timber Regulation against the illegal timber trade.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

Review November 2017 exposés of illegal timber trade by Global Witness and the Center for International Environmental Law

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

In early 1995, Global Witness carried out its first investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, exposing how the illegal timber trade across the border was bankrolling the war effort of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.

Not exact matches

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Gibson Guitars» agreement to pay a $ 300,000 fine for its role in importing illegal timber from Madagascar is a major breakthrough in the fight to end the multi-billion dollar global trade in illicit wood, said Global Witness today.

WWF must make membership of the scheme conditional on companies following sustainable, ethical and legal practices and prohibit any company from participating if it continues to destroy natural forest, trade in illegal timber, or is involved in human rights abuses.

When illegal timber enters the U.S. market, consumers in the United States become unwitting financiers of this illicit trade.

Illegal logging and global forest crime has an estimated worth of $ 30 to $ 100 billion U.S. dollars annually, comprising 10 to 30 percent of the total global timber trade.

Enacting and enforcing strong laws against illegal timber and timber products trade in the United States, and other key consumer markets, reduces illegal logging and supports governance reform in forest countries.

Good news and bad news coming out of the think tank Chatham House today: According to their new report, Illegal Logging and Related Trade, the amount of timber chopped down and produced illegally has fallen 22 % since 2002