Transcript the ITTO`s experience

INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION
IN SUPPORT OF
TROPICAL TIMBER AND FOREST
THE ITTO’S EXPERIENCE
By
Amha bin Buang
Assistant Director (Economic Information and Market Intelligence)
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
Yokohama, Japan
Bringing Tropical Forests under
Sustainable Management
MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGES
NO TIMBER WITHOUT TREES
Study on the Status of Sustainable Forest Management (1989)
Main Conclusions
i.
The extent of tropical forests being at an operational scale for the
sustainable production of timber was, on a world scale, negligible;
ii.
Many countries had the intention, expressed in their legislation, to
manage sustainably; in a number of these countries, partial forms of
sustainable management were being practiced;
iii.
There seemed to be some awareness in these countries that action was
needed to attain sustainable management;
iv.
Progress in establishing stable sustainable systems was so low that it
was having very little impact on the state of tropical forests;
v.
Comprehensive and urgent measures were necessary if the tropical
timber trade was to continue in the long-term; and
vi.
The future existence of tropical forests depended on the establishment of
sustainable systems of management.
Progress Towards the Achievement of the
ITTO Year 2000 Objective
PROGRESS
PROBLEMS
I. Producing Members
• Policy and legislative reform
• Strategies not fully acted upon
• Reorganization of administrative
arrangements
• Shortage of personnel and finance
• New strategies and master plans
• Illegal logging and poaching
• Establishment of PFE
• Inadequate management of protected
areas
• Consultation with local communities
• Application and enforcement of
guidelines and regulations
• Expanding forest lands for
conservation
• Broadening awareness about SFM
• Usage of ITTO guidelines, C&I
• Establishing a sound basis for forest
harvesting
• Development of standards for forest
management
• Implementing strict engineering
specification for road design
• Possibility of timber certification
• Greater practices of RIL
• Increased awareness about SFM
• Securing and protecting PFE
• Increased value-added exports
STATUS OF TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT 2005
CURRENT STATUS
• Forests cover 30% of world’s land area
• World’s total forest area continues to decline; albeit at
slower rate
• Critical regions having net loss mainly in tropics: Africa,
South America, Oceania, Central America
• Tropical forests remain the most vulnerable to deforestation,
degradation,
encroachment,
over-harvesting,
illegal
harveting
UNDERLYING CAUSES
• Virtually all tropical forests are in developing countries
• Requirements for sustainable management of (natural)
tropical forests are far more complex and demanding
• Sustainable (natural) tropical forest management is far less
attractive in terms of financial returns vis-à-vis other
landuses
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
• International intergovernmental organization
• Established by ITTA,1983, legally binding, negotiated under
aegis of UNCTAD
• Administers/supervises
subsequent ITTAs
operation
of
ITTA,1983
and
• Operationalised in 1986 with headquarters in Yokohama,
Japan
• Currently operates under ITTA,1994 while ITTA,2006 enters
into force
ITTO: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS
Non-Member
Governments
Trade/Industry/
Private Sector
International Organizations,
Bodies, Agencies, Treaties,
Initiatives
International Tropical Timber
Council (ITTC)
Consumer
Members
Committee on
Economic
Information and
Market Intelligence
Producer Caucus
Committee on
Reforestation and
Forest
Management
Expert Panel for the Technical
Appraisal of
Project and Pre-project Proposals
Informal Advisory Group Bureau
Fellowship Panel
Trade Advisory Group
Civil Society Advisory Group
Producer
Members
Consumer Caucus
Civil Society
Committee on
Forest Industry
Executive Director
and Secretariat
Committee on
Finance and
Administration
ITTO OBJECTIVES
Promote expansion and
diversification of
international trade in
tropical timber
ITTO Objective 2000
Achieve exports of
tropical timber from
sustainably
managed sources
Promote sustainable
management of
tropical forests
Promote processing
of tropical timber in
producing countries
ITTO’s POLICY WORK AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES
ITTA
ITTO Action Plan
ITTC Decisions
ITTO Biennial Work Programme
POLICY WORK
 Policy consultation,
deliberation,
development
 Policy research, studies
 Normative work –
guidelines, Criteria &
Indicators, Manuals
 Monitoring, assessment
and reporting
 Communication and
outreach materials
 ITTO Fellowship
Programme
APPROACHES
 Consultation
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Cooperation
Collaboration
Partnership
Capacity-building –
human/institutional
 Supportive measures
 Enabling measures
 Implementation
oriented
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
 Country-driven: initiation,
implementation,
ownership
 6 month project cycle
 address beneficiary
needs and priorities
 grant funding
 7400 projects (US$270
million)
 150 projects on-going
engaging >500 local full
time professionals
Major Areas of ITTO’s Work
ECONOMIC INFORMATION
AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE
REFORESTATION AND
FOREST MANAGEMENT
FOREST INDUSTRY
ITTO Objective 2000, diagnostic
missions, reporting
Annual Review and Assessment
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Forest and Land Use Planning
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Tropical Forest Update
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Reduced Impact Logging
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Market Access
Market Information Service
Transboundary Conservation
Areas
Criteria and Indicators of SFM
Auditing Systems
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Market Studies
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Timber Market Reviews
ITTO Annual Market Discussion
Illegal Trade
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Trade Data Discrepancies Studies
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Timber Tracking
Certification
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Inclusion of Tropical Timber
Species in Appendices of CITES
Forest Statistical Systems
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Forest Law Enforcement and
Governance
Illegal Logging
Best Practices
Secondary Tropical Forests,
Restoration of degraded
tropical forests
Conservation of Biological
Diversity
Forest Plantation
Climate Change Impact on
Forests
Mangroves
Promotion of Private Investment
Community-based forest
industries
Ecosystem Services
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Community Forests
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Efficiency in Processing/Utilization
Value-Adding
Non-Timber Forest Products
ITTO’s WORK OF DIRECT RELEVANT TO CLIMATE CHANGE
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. . . Monitor implications for resource base of climate change . . . . and contribution of resource base to
mitigate effects of climate change.”
[ITTO Yokohama Action Plan, Section 3.2, Goal 1, Action 3, ITTO Biennial Work Programme 2006-2007,
CRF(i)]
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Promote implementation of ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of
Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests
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ITTO International Workshop on Climate Change and Forest Sector: CDM in Tropical Countries, Seoul,
September 2004
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PPD 47/02 (F) –
‘Promotion of CDM in the Framework of SFM with Local Communities
Involvement’ (Indonesia)
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PD 54/99 Rev.1 (F) –
‘Alternative Financing Model for SFM in San Nicolas, Colombia’
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PD 240/03 Rev.1 (F) – ‘Alternative Financing Model for SFM in San Nicolas, Colombia – Phase II:
Non-Kyoto Rehabilitation Areas’
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PD 359/05 Rev.1 (F) – ‘Building Capacity to Develop and Implement AR-CDM of the Kyoto Protocol in
Tropical Forestry Sector
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PD 337/05 Rev.3 (F) -
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Regional Workshop on Perspectives of CDM Forestry Projects in Asia and
the Pacific, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 22-24 March 2006
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Guidebook for the Formulation of Afforestation and Reforestation Projects
under CDM
International Workshop on CDM – Opportunities and Challenges for the
Forest Industry Sector in Sub-Saharan Tropical Africa, Accra, Ghana,
2-5 October 2006
INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION
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