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MACHINERY 15% of timber exports illegal
ASTUDY by think tank Chatham House found around 15% of all timber exports from 37 exporting countries were illegal, amounting to US$19bn a year, resulting in “tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues for governments and citizens every year”.
The research said public procurement could have “an important role to play in driving change in business practices and in markets” – citing the impact of such policies in the UK and the Netherlands but the design and implementation of policies “varied significantly between countries”, along with the provision of training and advice for procurement officials.
“In many countries, the resources for providing these are limited and, in fact, the public services which provided such advice in the Netherlands and the UK have since been cut,” said the report.
The research, based on data from 2000-18, said the bulk of illegal timber came from China, Brazil, Indonesia and Russia and it called for increased transparency and cooperation between sectors.
The study comes as new deforestation rules are adopted by the European Parliament. Research found an area larger than the EU was lost to deforestation between 1990-20, with EU consumption representing around 10% of losses.
More than two-thirds of recent tropical deforestation is estimated to have taken place illegally. China is the largest global importer of illegal timber, both for the manufacture of products for re-export and increasingly, to supply its domestic market.
Policies to control the trade in legal timber, reforming the legal framework, and new systems for timber licensing have been undermined by poor enforcement and implementation, as well as corruption, the study found.
Recommendations for increased due diligence included using satellite monitoring tools, field audits, capacity building of suppliers and isotope testing to check where products come from.
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