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The uptake of innovative wood identification techniques could enhance Indonesia’s ongoing commitment to tackle illegal logging and provide law enforcement with reliable and accurate tools to effectively enforce its forest laws, according to a new Working Paper published by the Forest Governance and Policy team and WRI Indonesia.

Experts from the Forest Governance and Policy team have highlighted how a proposed ‘no-risk’ category in the European Unition Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could weaken the initiative and undermine its key purpose.

Sur la base de notre analyse précédente sur les raisons pour lesquelles le RDUE est une réglementation nécessaire pour lutter contre la déforestation liée aux chaînes d'approvisionnement en matières premières, cet article se concentre sur la faisabilité de la conformité et met en évidence les mesures concrètes prises pour s'y préparer.

Building on our previous analysis of why the EUDR is a necessary regulation to tackle deforestation linked to commodity supply chains, this article focuses on the practicality of compliance and highlights concrete steps being taken to prepare.

The world is losing 11 football (soccer) fields of tropical primary forest every minute; much of it is the result of clearing for farms, pastures and tree plantations. As a major buyer of commodities largely responsible for fueling deforestation — such as palm oil, cocoa, coffee, soy, cattle and timber — the European Union has both a responsibility and an opportunity to help shift global markets toward more sustainable supply chains. The landmark EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), adopted in 2023, requires businesses to demonstrate that the products they sell or export to the EU do not come

Earlier this month, the Advanced Research Lab at IPB University became the first institution in Indonesia to acquire a Direct Analysis in Real Time—Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (DART-TOFMS)

L’observation indépendante des forêts (OIF) a joué un rôle important dans l’amélioration de la gouvernance forestière et dans la lutte contre l’exploitation forestière illégale au cours des 20 dernières années, en conduisant, par exemple, à l’annulation de titres forestiers illégaux et l’adoption de nouveaux arrêtés ministériels améliorant la gouvernance forestière.

In some tropical countries, illegal logging accounts for the majority of forest clearing, threatening economies, livelihoods, ecosystems and contributing to climate change. To combat illegal logging and close markets to illegally sourced timber, tropical timber-producing countries around the world are developing national timber tracking systems.

Independent forest monitoring (IFM) has played an important role in improving forest governance and tackling illegal logging in the past 20 years, for example by leading to the withdrawal of illegal forest titles and adoption of new ministerial orders improving forest governance.