International Hardwood Agreements

Tarasofsky 1995 and united nations 1998b.

International hardwood agreements.

Legally and non legally binding commitments on forests have been made through a large number of global conventions and agreements see downes 1999. There are also international agreements on the uses of tropical hardwoods and logging. This is when a country which is owed money by. Forest related international conventions and agreements.

The main ones are the convention on biological diversity cbd convention on. International agreements agreements to protect tropical rainforests have been made between different countries through debt for nature swaps. The final agreement was reached after delegates to the un forum on forests worked through the night concluding just after dawn this morning. The international tropical timber agreement itta 1983 is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources the international tropical timber organization was established under.

Exhausted delegates nevertheless called the agreement a milestone noting it was the first time states have agreed to an international instrument for sustainable forest management.