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Learning from Illegal Logging: Transforming the Global Timber Trade to Support Successful REDD and Forest Governance
Environmental Investigation Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council
Location: Kuraszkiewicz, basement, Collegium Maius
The issue of illegal logging exemplifies how deforestation happens when the structural links between governance and international trade drivers are not addressed – and conversely, how the right policy tools can create powerful incentives for legal logging and trade, and foster rather than undermine a REDD framework. Demand-side laws and policies such as the U.S.’s new Lacey Act offer a valuable model. Co-hosts EIA and NRDC will use videos and an expert panel discussion to engage participants in discussion about how the formal REDD process can better engage with, reinforce and itself be strengthened by existing efforts to combat illegal timber trade.
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Chair:
Andrea Johnson, Director of Forest Campaigns, EIA-US |
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Title of presentation |
Speaker & Institution |
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16:30 – 16:45 |
The illegal logging and REDD connection: Deforestation, governance, and demand |
Video presentation |
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16:45 – 17:05 |
International trade as a driver and a solution: the US Lacey Act and other G-8 policies, changing the trade landscape |
Andrea Johnson, eia |
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17:05 – 17:25 |
Opportunities to support REDD through illegal logging policy, within and without the UNFCCC framework |
Jake Schmidt, nrdc |
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17:25 – 17:45 |
Panel comments & discussion |
EIA; NRDC; Florence Daviet, World Resources Institute; climate negotiator and other experts TBC |
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17:45 – 18:00 |
Panel and audience Q & A and discussion |
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