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What next for tropical forest products?
Wageningen/Utrecht/London, December 2, 2021 If Europe sourced 100% verified sustainable tropical timber products, it would have positively...
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Learning more about lesser known timber species
Together with its partners, Stichting Probos has been working on the selection, technical research and introduction of a number of lesser known...
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Estimating the 2020 share of verified sustainable tropical timber imports by the EU + UK and its impact on forests
The aim of this study is to make further insightful the sustainability and legality of the import of tropical primary and secondary wood products...
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Project ‘Developing a sustainable timber purchasing policy and accompanying data gathering portal’
To position timber as one of the solutions to help address climate change, and hence use the momentum to promote the use of timber, there should...
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Report: Understanding sustainable secondary tropical wood products through data
If the EU27+UK would source 100% verified sustainable tropical timber products, it would positively impact over 18 mill ha semi and natural...
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Kick-off EU LIFE project enabling effective Implementation and enforcement of the EUTR
The EUTR came into effect in 2013, making it illegal to place timber on the EU market if it was illegal in country of harvest, and requiring...
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Unlocking Sustainable Tropical Timber Market Growth Through Data
Between 25% and 32% of the primary tropical timber imported into the EU28 was exposed to sustainable timber certification, reveals the latest...
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Developing monitoring methodology for sustainable timber trade flows
Collating data on volume of certified wood products has been an on-going challenge for some time. Neither FSC nor PEFC currently collect these...
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Report: How sustainable are Europe’s tropical timber imports?
This report identifies trends in the trade of tropical timber on the European market, and explores how a European commitment to 100% verified...
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Dutch sustainably sourced timber consumption grows to 83% in a decade
Significant effort has been applied since the 1990s to make sustainably sourced material a dominant factor in the Dutch timber market. But the...
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