Topic: FLEGT
The EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan represents the European Union’s flagship attempt to tackle the root causes of illegal logging. It sets out a series of measures, including a Regulation (the EU Timber Regulation) requiring companies to verify the legality any timber products they import to the EU.
A key element of the FLEGT Action Plan is a series of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs). These agreements between timber producing countries and the EU aim to ensure that wood being exported to the EU is legal and that forest governance in the exporting country is improved. VPAs work by tackling the root causes of illegality, which include corruption and lack of clarity about land rights.
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VPA update November 2016 – Cameroon
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VPA update November 2016 – Cote d’Ivoire
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VPA update November 2016 – Guyana
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VPA update November 2016 – Indonesia
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VPA update November 2016 – Laos
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VPA update November 2016 – Liberia
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VPA update November 2016 – Republic of Congo
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VPA update November 2016 – Vietnam
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CS-IFM Briefiing #6: Affected Communities’ negotiation with the Alpha logging & Wood Processing Incorporated concession in Gbarpolu County
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Experimentalism in Transnational Forest Governance: Implementing EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (Flegt) Voluntary Partnership Agreements in Indonesia and Ghana
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Time to Rethink? A Critique of Rural Land Law in Côte d’Ivoire
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