Sentences with phrase «timber trading»

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

«DLH has a horrific record of financing conflict through its timber trading during Liberia's bloody civil war.

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.

Timber prices run hot and cold, but for right now, the timber trade is absolutely on.

It was once a terminal for chicle and the timber trade, however, agriculture is now the major economic base.

Offering the serenity and refreshing escape of the countryside, Losby Gods Hotel dates back 300 years to the lucrative timber trade.

A high - school drop - out and self - made billionaire, Pinault started out in his family's timber trade.

The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade.

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 is concerned by reports that where the Burmese authorities have taken action against the timber trade, this has sometimes involved violent attacks on Chinese migrant workers by the army.

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.

Washington's diverse landscapes sustain the state's economically vital fishing industry, timber trade, and agriculture, as well as a vibrant tourism industry that contributes $ 17 billion to the state's economy.

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.

The timber trade in Asia has taken an enormous toll on indispensable natural resources and contributed to global climate change.

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.

Other sponsors include American Softwoods, Arnold Laver, Wood for Good, Forestry Commission, Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Furniture Makers» Company.

As highlighted by the recent Global Witness report «A Conflict of Interests: The uncertain future of Burma's forests», the timber trade in Burma is unregulated, highly destructive of the environment and intertwined with corruption, illegality, and armed conflict.

«Ty Sokhun's failure to make public his familial links to the timber trade is a massive conflict of interest and is in itself reason enough to dismiss him.»

Ty Sokhun is hopelessly compromised by his familial links to the timber trade.

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.

The study, released at a conference held at the European Parliament analyses the transparency commitments in agreements between Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia and European countries put in place to ensure the timber trade is legal.

Not exact matches

This exchange - trade fund is one of the more popular timber ETFs, with more then $ 200 million in total managed assets.

Trump then said, according to The Post's reporting on the audio, that his aide returned and reported that the US had a $ 17 billion trade deficit with Canada when energy and timber sales were factored in.

Shares in Western Australian plantation timber manager Integrated Tree Cropping Ltd recommenced trading on the Australian Stock Exchange today.

Canadians can get exposure to the sector in three ways — investing in an exchange - listed lumber supplier, buying a timber exchange - traded fund (ETF) or purchasing a timber real estate investment trust.

The FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index, which contains 157 publicly traded REITs (as of 2016) that span commercial real estate in the United States, excluding timber and infrastructure REITs.

They did, returning to inform him that Canada-U.S. trade was about even until you added «timber» and «energy» into the mix, which pushed the U.S. into a deficit of about US$ 17 billion.

Trade in furs, timber and other goods dates back to our earliest experiences as a nation.

Logan was a trading center for nearby mining and logging areas, especially the popular cherry, white and oak timber.

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

1482 - Portuguese settlers arrive and begin trading in gold, ivory and timber with various Akan states.

The public - private partnership aims to work with wood importers and members of the timber supply chain to educate them about new trade policies and help them avoid illegally sourced timber.

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).

CITES success depends on products considered, and trade in less well studied groups such as orchids, timber or corals are likely to be less well regulated by CITES.

This study has implications for timber and plant trade within Europe, «We have to be more rigorous about trade between European countries once it is known that a disease is in the source country.

«This ridiculous red tape is in danger of undermining our efforts to get sustainably harvested timber on the market,» says Chris Cox of the Ecological Trading Company, a wood importer.

Governments of 50 countries last week failed to reach agreement on how to regulate world trade in timber to help conserve forests.

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Though these trading posts were originally utilized for such items as gold, ivory, timber, and spices, by the late 1400s trade had expanded to include the buying and selling of human cargo in the form of African slaves.

The large timber joists and roofing beams used in these constructions suggest that trade with the Lebanon was extensive.

Reforestation offers the opportunity for communities to empower themselves through the development of local economies and infrastructures — constructing homes with timber, for instance, or selling and trading food and other products that come from the land.

Logan was a trading center for nearby mining and logging areas, especially the popular cherry, white and oak timber.

Timber Hill Deutschland GmbH is incorporated in Germany, and shortly thereafter, begins trading equity derivatives at the Deutsche Terminborse (DTB), now Eurex.

The system allows Timber Hill to centrally price and manage risk on a portfolio of equity derivatives traded in multiple locations around the country.

Timber Hill Europe begins trading at the European Options Exchange in the Netherlands, the OM Exchange in Sweden (an electronic exchange) and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) in the U.K.