International Hardwood Agreements

The main ones are the convention on biological diversity cbd convention on.

International hardwood agreements.

The final agreement was reached after delegates to the un forum on forests worked through the night concluding just after dawn this morning. Its mandate was renewed by the international tropical timber agreement 1994 and again by the international tropical timber agreement 2006 which aims to promote sustainable management. Forest related international conventions and agreements. Tarasofsky 1995 and united nations 1998b.

There are also international agreements on the uses of tropical hardwoods and logging. This is when a country which is owed money by. The international tropical timber agreement was set up in 2006 to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable management of tropical. The organization was established under the international tropical timber agreement itta which was sponsored by the united nations conference on trade and development and was ratified in 1985.

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.