All three of Cambodia's neighbours are ignoring their public commitments to cooperate with the 31st December 1996
log export ban, although Thailand and Vietnam will undoubtedly claim these are Laotian logs.
The RGC and the donor community have to put the strongest pressure on Vietnam, Laos and Thailand to support Cambodia's
log export ban.
Many countries have enacted
log export ban policies to protect forests or to bolster their domestic timber industry.
Not exact matches
Johanna Son, «Philippines: Row Rages Over Lifting of Ban on Lumber
Exports,» InterPress Service, 17 April 1998; John Aglionby, «Philippines
Bans Logging After Fatal Floods,» Guardian (London), 6 December 2004; Republic of the Philippines, «President Okays Selective Lifting of
Log Ban,» press release (Manila: 7 March 2005).
Policies to
ban logging on old growth forsts, end fossil fuel subsidies and
ban all new
export coal mines (including Adani) are outlined here under «ENVIRONMENT»: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au / policies
«The Security Council's refusal to impose a
ban on Liberian
logs exports — due primarily to the objections of France and China — means that the international community's attempts to bring peace to Sierra Leone could soon be completely undone».
The change followed the introduction of policy measures such as restriction of
logging in natural forests and a
ban on the
export of raw
logs.