ITALIAN NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT: CONTROL MEASURES GUIDANCE DEVELOPED AFTER LARGE WINDTHROW
FSC has released a guidance document to help organizations sourcing controlled material in Italy, following a severe windthrow, which affected four Italian regions last October. The windthrow damaged a lot of material and forced forest managers to apply sanitary felling and take other emergency measures.FSC, 22 January 2019
Italy, Timber, Italian national risk assessment Brazilian government split on land ownership law
Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulationsDialogo Chino, 22 January 2019
Brazil, Soy, Beef, land ownership law Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report
The Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna, covers over 20 percent of the nation’s territory, but it is seeing severe deforestation. A recent report uncovered links between municipalities with the highest levels of deforestation and with significant soy production.South Africa Today, 17 January 2019
Brazil, Soy, Timber, Beef, deforestation, cerrado Jair Bolsonaro, the new Brazilian president, wants to open up protected indigenous territories in the Amazon rain forest to mining, cattle ranching and farming. The decision could be a fateful one for the global climate.
Jair Bolsonaro, the new Brazilian president, wants to open up protected indigenous territories in the Amazon rain forest to mining, cattle ranching and farming. The decision could be a fateful one for the global climateSpiegel online, 17 January 2019
Brazil, Soy, Timber, Beef, indigenous territories, land policy Argentina’s Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
Nancy López lives in a house made of clay, wood and corrugated metal sheets, on private land dedicated to agriculture. She is part of an indigenous community of 12 families in northern Argentina that, like almost all such communities, has no title to the land it occupies and lives under the constant threat of eviction.Inter Press Service, 12 January 2019
Argentina, Soy, Indigenous People For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help
In Brazil, the tropical savanna known as the Cerrado has long been under threat from agriculture. But new land management approaches within its vast mosaic of landscapes are changing the way local people are farming it.Global Landscapes Forum, 07 January 2019
Brazil, Soy, Beef, farming Global Canopy: New Tools Provide Significant Opportunity for Latin American Banks to “Underwrite Regional Food Security”, Through Better Management of Soft Commodity Risks
Global Canopy adds new tools and guidance to the Soft Commodity Risk Platform (SCRIPT), produced in partnership with WWF, to help regional banks better manage sustainability risks for commodities such as palm oil, soy, cattle and seafood.Business Wire, 07 January 2019
Brazil, Paraguay, Soy, Beef, Palm Oil, Timber, Tool Disturbing finding about destruction of old-growth rainforest in B.C.
The Sierra Club of BC says old-growth rainforest on Vancouver island is destroyed faster than in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Linda Aylesworth reports.Global News, 03 January 2019
Canada, , deforestation Deforestation: Niger lost 60 percent of its forests — Commissioner
Niger state has lost 60 per cent of its forests to defurestation, the Commissioner of Environment, Malam Idris Amin said.Daily Trust, 03 January 2019
Nigeria, , deforestation ESG investing – beyond virtue signalling
One investment theme that will only grow stronger in 2019 is that of incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.IPE, 03 January 2019
, Palm Oil, sustainable investment Sustainable choices on palm oil must be easier for consumers, says new study
Consumer goods companies and retailers need to be upfront about where palm oil in their products comes from to relieve consumers of the burden of making sustainable choices.LongRoom News, 03 January 2019
, Palm Oil, Brazil can survive another bad president. But can the planet?
Jair Bolsonaro threatens the rainforest, environmental activists and indigenous communities.New Statesman America, 03 January 2019
Brazil, Beef, deforestation Ban impacts poor farmers
Most affected: Oil palm smallholders worldwide who plant the crop as a route out of poverty will be hit by British supermarket chain Iceland Foods’ move to ban palm oil products from its own-brand range.The Star, 02 January 2019
United Kingdom, Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombia, Nigeria, Palm Oil, eu palm oil ban, Smallholder Developing Palm Oil Plantations in Kalimantan is Different from it in Papua
Developing Palm Oil Plantations in Kalimantan is Different from it in Papua.Palm Oil Magazine, 02 January 2019
Indonesia, Palm Oil, Malaysia warns of retaliatory trade action following France and Norway’s anti-palm oil stance
As 2019 gets underway, the spotlight is back on the palm oil industry as Malaysian government officials condemn the recent French National Assembly’s vote to exclude palm oil biofuels as “unwarranted and unjust.” The decision threatens the livelihoods of more than 650,000 Malaysian small farmers who rely on palm oil, according to the country’s government – and the move by France could spark trade retaliation – as Malaysia strongly protests and plans to “muster support from other key palm oil producers.”Food Ingredients First, 02 January 2019
Malaysia, France, Palm Oil, eu palm oil ban Masaka forestry officials held over illegal logging
Police in Masaka led by the RDC, Herman Sentongo have arrested a National Forestry Authority official in connection with cutting timber from Mujuzi forest reserve in Kyanamukaka sub-county.NTV, 02 January 2019
Uganda, Timber, illegal harvesting, Illegal logging Law on enhanced accountability for illegal logging, timber export comes into force in Ukraine
The law #2531-VIII, which provides the enhancing of the accountability up to the prison sentences for the smuggling of timber, has come into force in Ukraine.112 Internationals, 01 January 2019
Ukraine, Timber, illegal timber trading Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)
Brazil’s President-elect represents a major threat to Brazil’s legacy of forest conservation and to the prospects of preventing extremely dangerous climate change. This legacy was achieved largely through command-and-control measures that were supported by consistently pro-environment presidents over the last three decades; these measures are now vulnerable to the abrupt decline in environmental political will. A strategy to avoid major forest conservation setbacks and achieve new wins is possible under Bolsonaro if Brazil’s farmers and the broader society are convinced that they will be worse off if this legacy is dismantled.Mongabay, 06 December 2018
Brazil, Timber, deforestation VPA / FLEGT comes into force: Timber to the EU is unlikely to be an immediate breakthrough
VCN - Officially coming into effect on June 1, 2019, the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forestry Law Enforcement, Forest Governance and Trade in Forest Products between Vietnam and the EU (VPA / FLEGT) does not immediately create a breakthrough for the export of timber and timber products, but in the long term, it will open many opportunities for this group of products into the EU market.Customs News , 29 September 2018
Europe, Timber, EU Timber Regulation