Forest Trends in the News

With a series of new regulations relating to the manufacture and export of wooden furniture products, what do furniture businesses need to prepare to meet the stringent market requirements? FPTF Managing Director, Phuc Xuan To, suggests early preparation to prevent Vietnamese companies from losing a competitive edge.

The Vietnamese coffee industry is confronting multiple challenges as foreign trade policies are no longer constrained by borders, aligning more closely with sustainable development regulations. FPTF Managing Director, Phuc Xuan To, discusses supply chain risks for coffee once EUDR goes into effect.

In September, Bill Gates said that planting enough trees will not solve the climate problem. As long as the conservation of nature carries little to no economic value, converting forests and other ecosystems will continue to take place. EM research shows that carbon markets are an important tool to make nature more valuable alive than […]

An increasing number of investors are showing interest in the substantial timber supply originating from Vietnam. FPTF Managing Director, Phuc Xuan To, says that the absence of legal documentation regarding the land and the transactions renders ascertaining the legitimacy of timber established in such areas exceedingly challenging, if not impossible in some cases.

The impending EU Deforestation Regulation is set to have a significant impact on the Cambodian and Southeast Asian rubber export industry when they come into effect. FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To expressed that compliance issues would also affect Vietnam, a major importer of Cambodian rubber.

On November 3, Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Le Minh Hoan, chaired a conference on deploying the action plan to adapt to the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products. According to FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To, Vietnam will be in a disadvantageous position if the EU takes the product with the highest […]

El Encuentro Nacional “Perú Merese”, de Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos, que se realizó en la ciudad de Arequipa, superó todas las expectativas al impulsar los proyectos Merese hídricos para conservar y recuperar las fuentes naturales de agua que abastecen a las ciudades. El evento fue organizado por Sedapar y el Proyecto Infraestructura Natural […]

New research from Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends program, has found that companies engaging with the voluntary carbon market were in fact mostly working hard to cut emissions in their own operations.

A recent deluge of media criticism paints credit-buyers as lazy, even nefarious. A comprehensive new study from Ecosystem Marketplace presents evidence that those broad-brush assumptions are wrong. It finds that most companies that participate in the VCM are climate leaders, not laggards.

Companies buying carbon credits are far more likely to be taking robust, ambitious and accountable action to decarbonize their business and supply chains, according to new EM research, which argues hits back at accusations that the voluntary carbon market is little more than a “greenwashing” exercise.