Publications

The Bottom Line: Taking Stock of the Role of Carbon Offsets in Corporate Carbon Strategies

In 2013, CDP-reporting companies purchased 50.3 million offsets. This is equivalent to not burning 117 million barrels of oil, or shutting down 13 coal-fired power plants for one year. But it still represents less than 1% of reporting companies’ 2013 emissions not reduced by other means. This report explores offsetting from a business perspective, exploring […]

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Corporate Carbon Offset Buyers Dispel Greenwashing Myths

Commercial Agriculture Expansion in Myanmar: Links to Deforestation, Conversion Timber, and Land Conflicts

WASHINGTON, DC (12 March 2015) — An exclusive new analysis reveals that the Government of Myanmar has allocated at least 5.2 million acres and plans to allocate another 11 million acres of Southeast Asia’s last remaining biodiversity-rich high-value forests to make way for large-scale, private agribusiness projects that often never materialize. Many of these forest areas […]

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Commercial Agriculture Expansion in Myanmar: Links to Deforestation, Conversion Timber, and Land Conflicts

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

By Kevin Woods

မန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္စီးပြားျဖစ္စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရး တိုးခ်ဲ႕ျပဳလုပ္လာျခင္း

သစ္ေတာျပဳန္းတီးမႈ၊ သစ္အသြင္ေျပာင္းျခင္းႏွင့္ ေျမဆိုင္ရာပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္ႏြယ္မႈမ်ား

By Kevin Woods - Forest Trends

Government and Industry Data Suggest that More than 30 Percent of Wood Used by Indonesia’s Industrial Forest Sector Comes from Unreported, Illegal Sources

Current paper processing capacity exceeds reported supply of legally sourced wood; If planned pulp and paper mills open, this "supply gap" could spike to 59 percent

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015) — More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia’s industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear-cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well-managed logging concessions,2according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of […]

Indonesia’s Legal Timber Supply Gap and Implications for Expansion of Milling Capacity

A Review of the "Road Map for the Revitalization of the Forest Industry, Phase 1

In 2007, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry (MoF) developed a Road Map for the Revitalization of the Forest Industry that aimed, in part, to tackle the sector’s two major problems: 1) an insufficient supply of raw material; and, 2) an over-capacity in processing. As the first phase (2007-2014) of the Road Map draws to a […]

Forest Land Allocation in the Context of Forestry Sector Restructuring: Opportunities for Forestry Development and Upland Livelihood Impact

Though Vietnam’s Forest Land Allocation (FLA) policies have been in effect for more than a decade, a systematic assessment of FLA impacts on forest resources and the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities has never been carried out. This report shows that forest land allocated to households tends to be used efficiently in protected areas, whereas land […]

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Giao đất giao rừng trong bối cảnh tái cơ cấu ngành lâm nghiệp: Cơ hội phát triển rừng và cải thiện sinh kế vùng cao

Landscape Transformations in Honduras

Honduras’ rural landscapes are undergoing profound transformations. Using the launch of the country’s new Forest and Land Cover Map as a starting point, this Information Brief examines the nature of these dynamics, focusing on the way migration and cash transfers from Hondurans abroad influence forest recovery processes in landscapes dominated by small farmers. The final […]

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Transformaciones del paisaje rural en Honduras

By Filippo Del Gatto - Forest Trends

State of Watershed Investment 2014

Gaining Depth

Last year, governments and companies invested $12.3 billion (B) in initiatives implementing nature-based solutions to sustain the world’s clean water supplies. According to a new report from Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, this funding – which supports healthy watersheds that naturally filter water, absorb storm surge, and perform other critical functions – flowed to more than […]

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Un Viaje a las Profundidades

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll - Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends, Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends

Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade

This policy brief analyzes recent trends in the timber products trade between China and Myanmar, using Chinese customs data from 2000 through 2013. Timber is one of the primary commodities traded between the two countries, providing significant revenue to Myanmar’s central government and ethnic political armed opposition groups, while supplying China with materials to feed […]

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Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade

(Burmese Translation)

By Eve Richer - Forest Trends

Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade

Chinese Translation

By Eve Richer - Forest Trends

The Socio-Economic Context of Illegal Logging and Trade of Rosewood Along the Cambodian-Lao Border

Siamese Rovsewood (Dalbergia cochinensis) has recently been listed on Appendix II of The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This listing means that source countries are legally required to export only controlled quantities of rosewood with close monitoring and documentation, which is intended to ensure that the international trade is not detrimental […]

State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2014

Turning over a New Leaf

Demand for carbon offsets earned from forest protection or renewal grew 17% in 2013 as companies and governments invested $192 million in efforts to plant trees, improve forest management, support “climate-smart” agriculture, or avoid deforestation. With the effects of climate change already being felt from New York City to New Delhi, the fight to keep […]