AFP 4 - Session 4:
Demand-driven market forces/ contribution of consumers

Presentations

Ms Kristin Bonner, Metafore, USA:

• Responsible wood and paper purchasing undertaken by major US corporations
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Hugh Speechly, DFID, UK:

• UK’s actions to tackle illegal logging (in particular the Government’s timber procurement policy)
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• the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEGT) Action Plan.

New workplans

FoE Japan:

• project to encouraging Japanese industry to participate in a pilot program to import certified or verified legal timber products though tracking sample orders
• Funding: ITTO ?
• Participation: Japanese Forest Products Research Institute, Japanese Federation of Wood Industry Associations
• Proposal needs further refinement before submitting to AFP.

Other discussion

Translation of material:

• Most information on illegal logging is in English so is not accessible to Japanese audience

Russian Far East

• In Asia, yet treated as part of Europe
• Community-scale logging technically illegal but essential for subsistence
• Efforts should focus on large-scale logging in protected areas
• …but illegal logging is still illegal - problem is to identify what is illegal.

Actions by Indonesian pulp companies:

• APP: letter of intent with WWF – problems of credibility
• APRIL: responsible role by buying up concessions in the locality and supporting establishment of a national park in those areas which had high conservation value
• Only wood products that were 100% legal should be purchased. This should be made mandatory, not voluntary
• AFP could contribute to raising public awareness of issue… but targeting retail and supplier organizations likely to have greater impact

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