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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Indigenous peoples in Guyana concerned that VPA could lack solid protections for land and other rights
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September 2015 issue of the Lao FLEGT Newsletter
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Vientiane Times: Lao wood product makers eye better access to EU markets
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90 percent of DR Congo’s logging revenues lost to tax avoidance in 2012
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DR Congo: Greenpeace report ‘Carving up the Congo’
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Lessons from Herakles Farms debacle in Cameroon
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License to launder: Greenpeace report on illegal conversion timber in Cameroon
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Press release on criminal complaint against Danzer representative over human rights abuses in DR Congo
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The Story of FLEGT in local Cameroonian languages
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Indonesia and EU agree to tackle illegal logging through a FLEGT partnership
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Indonesia: EU delays bilateral agreement more than five times
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