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Foreign Policy: China’s Appetite for Rosewood Is Causing Chaos in Africa
Instead, China has voluntary guidelines for tracing timber, which, according to a study conducted by Forest Trends, have been developed as a “stepwise approach towards eventual mandatory legislation.”
The Business Times: Slowly Reviving Carbon Markets, Singapore Commissions Nuclear Study
The tepid trading reflects widespread loss of confidence about the quality of carbon credits after several high-profile analyses that found a number of major projects were not removing or reducing carbon as much as claimed. But Ecosystem Marketplace, a carbon markets information platform run by the conservation finance organisation Forest Trends, sees reasons for “moderate […]
Wood Central: New EUDR Rules Slash Compliance Checks for Low-Risk Timber
Critics argue that timber harvested in high-risk regions could be processed in low-risk hubs such as China, Singapore, or India, and then re-exported to Europe under misleading classifications. “Presumably, declarations would still need to indicate the original country of harvest,” said Kerstin Canby of Forest Trends, who spoke to Wood Central in June. “But if the country of harvest […]
VegOut: How a Malaysian Dictator Created the Blueprint for Ecological Genocide
Cambodia has lost forest at one of the world’s fastest rates. According to Forest Trends, “95 percent of the timber harvested between 1997 and 1998 was illegally felled.” The country that was once 73% forested now struggles to protect its remaining fragments.
Renewable Matter: Doubling Down on Nature
Forest Trends, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, recently released a new report on the state of investment in nature-based solutions for water security. Gena Gammie, Director of Forest Trends’ Global Water Initiative and co-author of the report, joins in conversation about the report’s findings and their implications.
Wood Central: Flawed EUDR Ratings Prioritize Politics Over Deforestation Risks
The EUDR’s new country classification lisk, which rates countries based on their risk of deforestation, fails to acknowledge many key countries as ‘high-risk’ and does not factor in timber laundered through global shipping hubs. Highlighting insights from Marigold Watkins, Senior Advisor at Forest Trends, and Kerstin Canby, Senior Director of our Forest Policy, Trade, and […]
Wood Central: EUDR Won’t Stop Illegal Timber Arriving via Singapore & Hong Kong
The EUDR—and its new country classification list—will do little to curb the constant flow of deforested and illegal timber arriving in European ports via Singapore, India, and China. That is according to Marigold Walkins and Kerstin Canby, from Forest Trends, who spoke to Wood Central about the fundamentally flawed way policymakers have classified 194 countries […]
Carbon Credits: VCM Makeover in 2024
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a crucial tool in the global fight against climate change. It allows companies, governments, and individuals to purchase carbon credits that represent a reduction or removal of greenhouse gases, offsetting their own emissions. Over the past decade, the VCM has grown rapidly, but it is now entering a new, more complex […]
Viet Nam News: Solutions for forestry land contracting proposed to maximise potentials
The policy of allocating forestry land to contractors through forestry companies in Việt Nam has achieved significant success in forest protection and development, as well as improving local livelihoods. Featuring insights from Phuc Xuan To, FPTF’s Managing Director in Vietnam, from a workshop on the “Current Status and Proposed Solutions for Forestry Land Contracting in […]
Vietnam+: Emission reduction brings carbon credit opportunity for agricultural sector
With its diversity, ranging from livestock, crop cultivation, and forestry, Vietnam’s agriculture sector has great potential to shift towards low-carbon emission production. Featuring insights from Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of FPTF in Vietnam.