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Promoting policies for forest management that conserves forest resources, secures livelihoods and reflects an equitable negotiation of rights
Critical review of forest regulatory frameworks
Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries (REDD)At UNFCCC COP13 held in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007, the Parties agreed to include consideration of policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to REDD in designing a future global climate framework. IGES research includes reviewing REDD proposals submitted to the UNFCCC and analysing the design of projects intended to reduce emissions through forest conservation measures.
Innovative models to promote forest certification for small forest enterprises Forest certification is attractive as a policy instrument as it provides the market with reasonable assurance that wood products are legal and sustainable. However, developing countries have found forest certification difficult to achieve, especially for their small, locally-based enterprises. The Project will evaluate and compare innovative certification models to identify strategies for overcoming the obstacles for small forest enterprises to achieve and utilise forest certification.
Promoting trade of certified/verified legal tropical woodUnder ITTO Project(PD 391/06),a centre of expertise to promote trade in certified/legal verified wood (the “Fairwood Centre”) will be established in Japan in 2008. The IGES Forest Conservation Project acts as the National Consultant for this ITTO Project. The research component will monitor and assess performance of the Fairwood Centre during its first three years of operation with respect to its impact, or likely potential impact, on the market share of certified wood in Japan.
Local women carrying non-timber forest products, Viet Nam
Certificates for two community forests, Java, Indonesia
Research Components
The study will construct an analytical framework to assess legal frameworks for forest management and their implementation from the perspectives of forest conservation, livelihoods and rights. Using this framework, the Project will commission country studies to: describe the legal, regulatory and institutional reforms that have taken place; identify the driving forces for, and opposition to, these reforms; evaluate achievements and shortcomings, and identify the causal relationships between impacts and the legal treatment of conservation, livelihoods and rights.
Forest Conservation Project
Mission and Background
Natural forests in the Asia-Pacific region continue to disappear and be degraded at alarming rates.
The goal of the Project is through strategic policy research to contribute to the development and dissemination of policy instruments that promote the appropriate inclusion of conservation, livelihoods and rights in forest management regimes, effective forest law enforcement, and markets for legal and sustainable forest products.
To be effective in promoting sustainable forest management, forest negotiation of ownership and use rights. The reform of forest regulatory regimes in this direction must also be accompanied by the strengthening of frameworks for their effective implementation, which requires action at local, national and international levels.
conservation must go hand-in-hand with livelihood’s security and a fair
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Strengthening timber procurement policies Developing robust public timber procurement policies that effectively distinguish between legal/illegal and sustainable/unsustainable products is a challenging process. The research proposed under this component is an independent assessment of Japan’s timber procurement policy and an investigation of the prospects and options for public timber procurement policies in other Asia-Pacific importer countries.
The Forest Conservation Project participates in a variety of regional/global initiatives such as the Asia Forest Partnership, the East Asia and Pacific Forest Law Enforcement and Governance process and the Illegal Logging Dialogue under the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment initiative.
Contributions to Regional /Global Initiatives
Publications
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Strengthening the role of Customs In the Asia-Pacific region, the bulk of trade in timber products from the main producing countries occurs within the region and there is evidence that a significant proportion of this originates from illegal logging. The Project will explore options to develop instruments, capacity and co-operation frameworks for Customs to identify and combat the trade in illegally harvested wood.
BooksJapan’s Public Procurement Policy of Legal and Sustainable Timber: Progress, Challenges and Ways Forward
Policy Briefs#007: Public Procurement Policies for Legal and Sustainable Timber: How to Strengthen Japan’ s Policy #006: Designing Forestation Models for Rural Asia: Avoiding Land Conflict as a Key to Success#003: Combatting Forest Degradation - Certification as a driving force for amelioration
Forest Conservation Project Occasional Papers#002: China’ s Imports of Russian Timber: Chinese Actors in the Timber Commodity Chain and Their Risks of Involvement in Illegal Logging and the Resultant Trade#001: Forest Certification in Papua New Guinea: Progress, Prospects and Challenges
Asia Forest PartnershipPartnerships are acknowledged as critical for achieving sustainable forest management. The Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) was launched in August 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a Type II partnership for sustainable development. The Partnership is a voluntary collaboration of governments,
As an active AFP Partner, IGES contributes to hosting, organising and facilitating AFP events, at which it presents its research findings to a broad international audience.(see http://www.asiaforests.org)
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inter-governmental organisations and civil society organisations, and counts amongst its key assets a broad mandate, openness, flexibility and growing membership. AFP’s objectives are to:
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promote sustainable forest management in Asia
provide a framework for the exchange of information and expertiseact as a catalyst for already existing initiatives by increasingsynergies and reducing duplication between programmes and ongoing efforts
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