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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.

Chair:
Andrea Johnson, Director of Forest Campaigns, EIA-US

Time

Title of presentation

Speaker & Institution

16:30 – 16:45

The illegal logging and REDD connection: Deforestation, governance, and demand

Video presentation

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

17:05 – 17:25

Opportunities to support REDD through illegal logging policy, within and without the UNFCCC framework

Jake Schmidt, nrdc

17:25 – 17:45

Panel comments & discussion

EIA; NRDC; Florence Daviet, World Resources Institute; climate negotiator and other experts TBC

17:45 – 18:00

Panel and audience Q & A and discussion

 

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).