Legal vs. certified timber: Preliminary impacts of forest certification in Cameroon

Cerutti, P.O.; Tacconi, Luca; Nasi, Robert; Lescuyer, Guillaume

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.11.005

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“…Forest certification schemes have played an important role in certifying the timber products from sustainably managed forests (Durst et al, 2006;Cerutti et al, 2011;Putz et al, 2012), thereby reducing illegal and unsustainable logging practices to some extent (Cerutti et al, 2011;Kishor and Lescuyer, 2012). Nevertheless, as forest certification is based commonly on paper, and logging in the tropics is being practiced with corruption and falsification of logging permits (Nellemann, 2012), forest certification alone is still vulnerable to document falsification.…”

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Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

Sasaki

Asner

Pan

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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HIGHLIGHTS• About 500 million hectares of tropical forests have been degraded due primarily to overexploitation • Preventing premature re-entry into harvested areas can retain up to 34% of carbon stocks in the forests • Adoption of reduced-impact logging and wood processing technologies (RIL+) along with financial incentives can reduce forest fires, forest degradation, maintain timber production, and retain carbon stocks • About US$1.8 Mg CO −1 2 or US$2 billion year −1 is needed for the adoption of RIL+ for the whole tropical production forests.The REDD+ scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has provided opportunities to manage tropical forests for timber production and carbon emission reductions. To determine the appropriate logging techniques, we analyzed potential timber production and carbon emission reductions under two logging techniques over a 40-year period of selective logging. We found that use of reduced-impact logging (RIL) techniques alone in tropical production forests (PdF) could reduce carbon emissions equivalent to 29-50% of net emissions from tropical deforestation and land use change, while also supplying 45% of global round-wood demand. Adopting RIL plus other improvements (RIL+) in forest management (adopting forest certification and DNA timber tracking to prevent illegal logging) and wood conversion practices (adopting technology to increase recovery of sawn wood), would result in increasing long-term carbon storage in sawn-wood and reduce logging-induced fire-prone wood wastes by 14-184%. For this to happen, about US$2 billion or $1.86 per Mg CO 2 in financial Sasaki et al. Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests incentives are needed annually for parties to adopt RIL+ and to prevent premature re-entry logging. Our findings suggest that future climate policies should explicitly include RIL+ to satisfy the "sustainable management of forests" proviso in the REDD+ scheme, and also count carbon in wood products as eligible credits for trading.

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Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

Sasaki

Asner

Pan

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Environmental benefits of certification have been identified by some authors [18,19] although clear empirical evidence in relation to this is still lacking. For example Cerutti et al [20] found that in Cameroon FSC certified forestry operations had to reduce the logging volumes in average 18% compared to the practices used prior to certification. Positive impacts of certification on biodiversity have been also questioned by several authors [21,22] and suggestions for improving FSC standards have been proposed to increase positive impacts by Lõhmus and Kraut [23].…”

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Impacts of sustainable forestry certification in European forest management operations

Hain¹,

Ahas²

2011

Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards III

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The article evaluates impacts of forest certification in promoting sustainable forest management in Europe. Forest certification is one of the most widespread non-governmental initiatives for sustainable forest management with 400 million ha being certified by 2011.We have analysed 1000 non-conformities raised by certification bodies during 245 FSC forest management audits in 32 European countries. The raised non-conformities indicate the areas where certification has had largest impact on enforcing sustainable forest management. Results reveal biggest challenges in ensuring protection of nature values and stakeholder communication.

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“…modification des cadres juridiques influant sur les choix des UFA, disponibilité des informations, effondrement des marchés À l'inverse, il est important de prendre en considération les impacts directs et indirects de la certification sur le contexte où elle est à l'oeuvre. Par exemple, ce sont les principes de la certification qui ont inspiré la formulation de la politique nationale forestière en Bolivie (Nittler et Nash 1999) et la certification forestière a permis de mieux faire respecter la loi forestière au Cameroun (Cerutti et al 2011). En Russie, la certification a développé les capacités d'adaptation du fait qu'elle a permis d'accroître les connaissances des acteurs locaux grâce à la mise en place de méthodes de gestion forestière plus participatives (Keskitalo et al 2009).…”

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Analyse des connaissances actuelles sur les impacts de la certification forestière: proposition d'un cadre d'évaluation

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Legal vs. certified timber: Preliminary impacts of forest certification in Cameroon

Cited by 75 publications

References 13 publications

Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

Impacts of sustainable forestry certification in European forest management operations

Analyse des connaissances actuelles sur les impacts de la certification foresti&egrave;re: proposition d'un cadre d'évaluation

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