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A ratings system showing the countries where illegal logging is rife is being drawn up to help businesses, customers, investors and other stakeholders to avoid supporting the practice.
The decision to set up the system was one of many taken by more than 120 business, social and government leaders meeting for the first time in Hong Kong in March to combat illegal logging. The delegates were called together by the US-based Forests Dialogue, an international coalition including landowners, conservationists, trade unionists and business people.
The group put high priority on efforts to prevent the illegal sourcing of wood from national parks and reserves and timber thefts from communities and landowners – delegates were reminded that more than half the logging in Indonesia is illegal. The group will press governments for prosecutions to stop money laundering, tax evasion, counterfeiting, smuggling and false claims.
The Forests Dialogue was asked by the conference to send representatives to government ministers in Asian, European and other countries and to lobby international conferences, such as the East Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance task force meeting in Manila in September, to state the case for action.
The companies and groups at the Forests Dialogue meeting included HSBC Bank, furniture retailer Ikea, the Nordic pulp and paper company Stora Enso, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the Worldwide Fund for Nature. Countries whose governments were represented included China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The decision to set up the system was one of many taken by more than 120 business, social and government leaders meeting for the first time in Hong Kong in March to combat illegal logging. The delegates were called together by the US-based Forests Dialogue, an international coalition including landowners, conservationists, trade unionists and business people.
The group put high priority on efforts to prevent the illegal sourcing of wood from national parks and reserves and timber thefts from communities and landowners – delegates were reminded that more than half the logging in Indonesia is illegal. The group will press governments for prosecutions to stop money laundering, tax evasion, counterfeiting, smuggling and false claims.
The Forests Dialogue was asked by the conference to send representatives to government ministers in Asian, European and other countries and to lobby international conferences, such as the East Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance task force meeting in Manila in September, to state the case for action.
The companies and groups at the Forests Dialogue meeting included HSBC Bank, furniture retailer Ikea, the Nordic pulp and paper company Stora Enso, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the Worldwide Fund for Nature. Countries whose governments were represented included China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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