Forest Trends in the News

The UN High Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Actors, otherwise known as HLEG, has released recommendations on what is necessary for companies to call themselves aligned with the Paris Agreement, in its report Integrity Matters. Stephen Donofrio discusses the role of the carbon markets to accelerate action.

A workshop in the southern province of Dong Nai called for management agencies to roll out mechanisms and policies to promote the linkage between businesses and craft villages in the wood sector. Xuan Phuc stressed the need to step up the communication work to change consumption behavior towards rare wood species, and provide training courses for […]

Forest Trends joins the FSC’s new Climate Coalition at COP27. This coalition will convene different sectors and voices to enhance the role that forests play in combating climate change and ensure that Indigenous Peoples, smallholders, and forest stewards can benefit from climate finance.

Arequipa busca proteger las cabeceras de cuenca ante el cambio climático, por este motivo, en la comunidad campesina de San Juan de Tarucani, en la Reserva Natural de Salinas y Aguada Blanca, se realizó la construcción de las dos primeras Qcochas artificiales en la región que beneficiarán a las familias de este sector. Para este […]

La Autoridad para la Reconstrucción con Cambios (ARCC) impulsa un gran proyecto de infraestructura natural que busca contribuir a proteger de las inundaciones y movimientos en masa a cerca de 45 mil habitantes en dicha región de nuestro país. Fernando Momiy, director del Proyecto INSH de Forest Trends, manifestó que “el cambio climático viene con […]

Việt Nam’s wood pellet exports saw rapid increases in recent years and were expected to become one of the agro-forestry products which touched a revenue of $1 billion or higher. Tô Xuân Phúc from Forest Trends said the demand and prices of pellets in the EU were increasing rapidly, which was grabbing large attention from […]

Este 4 de octubre se presentó el documental peruano que revela la lucha de las comunidades de Huarochirí para cuidar las fuentes de agua que alimentan a la ciudad de Lima. El valioso documental sobre la siembra y cosecha del agua es fruto del esfuerzo de la municipalidad provincial de Huarochirí, Cáritas, y el proyecto […]

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a nonprofit watchdog group based in Britain, has found that most birch products currently being exported from Vietnam to the United States originate in Russia. Phuc Xuan To, a senior policy analyst at Forest Trends who has studied Vietnam’s wood industry for years, confirmed the EIA’s findings.

Insiders are calling for a revision to Circular 27 on the traceability of forest products to plug the legal gaps that have been holding back firms for years. Tô Xuân Phúc, an expert at Forest Trends, said there is a common misconception that timber harvested from cultivated forests is automatically legal and carries no risk.

The US and EU are the leading export markets of Vietnam’s wood processing and exporting industry. High inflation in these markets has been causing Vietnamese wood exports to face many difficulties, even posing challenges with an export target of about US$16 billion for the whole year.