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The 2019 revision of China's Forest Law explicitly prohibited the handling of timber known to originate from illegal logging. This report analyses the state of implementation of this law based on interviews with some experts in China including government officers, an industry association and NGOs, as well as seminars, various websites, and...

In China, the verification of the legality of procured wood has mainly been voluntary, with businesses exporting wood products to Europe and the U.S. conducting their own checks. However, since the revision of the Forest Law in 2019, the procurement, processing, and transportation of clearly illegally harvested wood is now prohibited, and violators...

Summary of two technical reports below to assist due diligence conducted by businesses importing timber and wood products from China. 1) Legislation and Other Initiatives for Legal Timber Trade in China 2) Status of Timber Legality Verification by Business Entities in China

東南アジアのアブラヤシ農園の拡大が生物多様性・生態系サービスに及ぼす影響についての先行研究のレビュー

森林認証は、クリーンウッド法においても、EU木材規則等においても、それがありさえすれば合法であると政府に認めてもらえるわけではなく、あくまでも事業者が合法性を判断するための材料の一つ しかし認証材であれば、事業者は合法性確認のために十分な努力を払った（＝違法伐採由来のものが混じっていたとしても故意ではない）と主張できる 現在欧米豪等の生産林の多くは認証林であり、低リスク材の迅速な合法性確認（➡合法性確認努力を高リスク材に集中）に有用 高リスク国であっても、森林認証取得の動きが進んでおり、輸入国は積極的に評価することが期待される EU森林破壊規則（EUDR）等の動向から、今後合法性だけでなく持続可能な森林由来の確認が求められ、森林認証の有用性が高まると予想される

サラワク木材業協会（STA）において、同協会メンバーの事業者、サラワク森林局（FDS）、サラワク林業公社（SFC）、 サラワク木材産業開発公社（STIDC）等に対し、2023年5月に改正されたクリーンウッド法の改正内容やその趣旨、特に日本への木材・木材製品輸出国側が留意すべき点の解説を行った。

Understand the development of the timber and oil palm industries in recent decades and discuss how international initiatives and policies can effectively maintain the remaining tropical forests.

Climate and rainfall are extremely non-linear and complicated phenomena, which require numerical modelling to simulate for accurate prediction. We obtained local historical rainfall data for 12 meteorological stations in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) for the 45-year period 1978–2022, to predict annual rainfall trends. A statistical time series...

Mini-lateral ‘clubs’ occupy an increasingly prominent place in the international environmental governance landscape. Yet few studies have looked at how differences between clubs influence the results they produce. This paper aims to fill this gap in understanding by testing hypotheses on how different clubs’ membership constellations and leadership...