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Certified Forests
Sustainable
Forest Products Alliance
Major
U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of wood and wood
products have made a public commitment to increase the quantity they
sell which is certified as having been produced by environmentally
sustainable methods. Meanwhile, illegal and environmentally damaging
logging continues, and the supply of certified timber is very
limited. USAID has partnered with environmental non-governmental
(NGOs) led by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Global Forest and
Technology Network (GFTN), related industry associations led by the
Certified Forest Products Council (CFPC), socially responsible
investment groups, timber manufacturers and retailers (such as
International Paper, Home Depot and IKEA-US), and foundations in a
global alliance to address these issues.
The
global alliance will assist producing countries and local groups of
producers and small businesses to meet certification standards and to
implement sustainable forest management. These efforts will increase
incomes for local communities and decrease negative environmental
impacts, while expanding the supply of certified products available
to U.S. consumers. The Sustainable Forest Products Alliance will
also complement related USAID forestry activities in Mexico, Peru,
Bolivia, Brazil, and Indonesia.
The
Global Forest and Technology Network (GFTN) and the Certified Forest
Products Council (CFPC) recently co-hosted the unprecedented Forest
Leadership Forum conference which brought together 1300 participants
from 45 countries in an event that CNN described as a “union of
age-old rivals…uniting environmentalists and industrialists to
save the world’s forests”. In related developments, WWF
and IKEA as key GFTN members have forged a partnership to bolster
responsible forestry development efforts around the globe, and have
joined forces with USAID to ensure success through the unique
combination of shared values and competence.
The
Sustainable Forest Products Alliance will jointly develop tool kits
and apply global building blocks for responsible forestry by
implementing the following four primary activities:
Setting-up and running producer networks, the link between forest
managers and the local NGO members of the Global Forest and
Technology Network;
Running multi-stakeholder
standard-setting processes to promulgate the implementation of
credible forest standards;
Identifying and developing
High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) for appropriate protection
and development of related local communities; and
Developing
the demand for certified products in key markets and forging market
links with sources of supply in USAID countries.
The
Certified Forest Products Council is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
organization based in Portland, Oregon. It promotes purchasing
practices in North America that support the conservation, protection
and restoration of forests throughout the world. CFPC leverages the
capacities of businesses, agencies and environmental organizations to
stimulate improved forest management and trade practices worldwide.
CFPC has also launched a business-driven Marketing Collaborative,
organized as a 501(c)(6) under U.S. tax laws, to focus solely on
generating business value for its member companies by performing
collective marketing services and developing the market for certified
forest products.
The
Certified Forest Products Council has partnered with USAID to forge
critical market linkages, including state of the art Internet
database access, which will increase the flow of certified forest
products into major North American markets. This will drive the
development of sustainable forest management practices in developing
countries with attendant strong development impact.
Three
practical related toolkits and implementation activities are being
developed as part of the new WWF/IKEA project, but with only a
limited geographical focus. Cooperation with USAID will allow the
toolkits and activities to be made globally available through
translation into key languages, preparation of training courses to
introduce them into new regions, and through national pilot studies.
WWF
and USAID have a long and positive history of working together. WWF
also cooperates with USAID and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service on a number of forestry environmental projects. USAID
has contributed $3.5 million to the Sustainable Forest Products
Alliance which will be matched by GFTN,
WWF, and CFPC collectively on a two-to-one basis.
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