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Legislating trade in forest products

Synonyms:
Controlling export of rainforest products
Description:
Trade in forest products should be based on non-discriminatory and multilaterally agreed rules and procedures consistent with international trade law and practices.
Broader:
Strengthening trade law
Tightening export controls
Developing international environmental law
Using forest resources sustainably
Narrower:
Protesting woodchipping of native forests
Constrained by:
Extracting timber
Using available timber resources
Rolling back environmental legislation
Causing extinction of rainforest species
Removing tariff barriers on forest products
Avoiding legislation on trade in forest products
Facilitates:
Certifying wood
Managing hardwood forests
Developing ethnopharmacology
Improving trade in forest products
Facilitated by:
Monitoring timber production
Protesting sale of tropical timber
Ensuring compatibility of environmental and trade law
Problems:
Exploitation of forest biological resources
Logging of protected areas of forest
Unethical practices in forestry
Unsustainable development of forest lands
Subjects:
Commerce → Trade
Commerce → Import, export
Industry → Products
Industry → Wood products
Agriculture, Fisheries → Forestry
Law → Law
Cybernetics → Control
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionGOAL 15: Life on LandGOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

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