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Human Rights Violations
Internal and external stakeholder concerns may identify specific issues, countries, or companies that are extremely controversial or out of step with generally accepted practices. Sourcing forest products from such countries ...Delete Item
15.0 Supporting Information
High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) CITES-Listed Species Human Rights Violations Conflict Timber Defining “Illegal Logging” Illegal Logging Improving the Quality of Data from Suppliers Glossary Glossary Questionnaires Questionnaire - ...Delete Item
CITES-Listed Species
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is a global response to concern over the trade of endangered species. CITES was enacted in ...Delete Item
0.2 Responsible Sourcing Programme Elements
The stepwise approach cannot operate in isolation and needs a supporting process that seeks continuous improvement, similar to that used by environmental management systems. The supporting process requires that a ...Delete Item
Glossary
Conversion - Forests conversion involves removing natural forests to meet other land needs, such as plantations (e.g. pulp wood, oil palm and coffee among others), agriculture, pasture for cattle ...Delete Item
8.3 Uncertified Timber - Reducing the Risk of Buying Illegal Wood
In an ideal world, as a sourcing organization, you would state that you did not want any illegal timber or timber products in your business's supply chain; you would then ...Delete Item
14.1 Introduction
The overall aim for the Common Legality Framework is to support companies and where relevant, regulators in their efforts to improve governance of their forest resources and prevent illegal logging and ...Delete Item
Conflict Timber
“Conflict timber” is a term used to describe timber that is produced and sold to finance armed conflict. The definition used by the NGO Global Witness is “timber that has ...Delete Item
6.1 Dealing with Unknown and Unwanted Sources
Unwanted Source Unwanted sources may have a high degree of traceability or be simply unknown. Where the source is identified, the key information is that the source clearly does ...Delete Item