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Responsible Timber Sourcing from Managed Sources

Learn about the WWF Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), which promotes responsible forestry through partnerships between NGOs, governments, and companies. Discover how hundreds of members, including IKEA, Carrefour, and B&Q, are committed to promoting responsible forest management and credible certification, while phasing out wood from unknown or potentially illegal sources. Explore the GFTN's purchasing policies, stepwise approach, and the importance of credible certification systems.

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Responsible Timber Sourcing from Managed Sources

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  1. Sourcing timber from responsibly managed sources Margaret Rainey WWF Global Forest and Trade Network

  2. What is the GFTN? WWF Global Forest and Trade Network • Partnerships between WWF (NGOs), governments & companies to drive responsible forestry • Hundreds of members incl: IKEA, Carrefour, B&Q/Kingfisher (50% of demand) • Creating responsible forestry on the ground • Market links between responsible suppliers & buyers

  3. Members commit to: • promote responsible forest management and credible certification • phase out wood from unknown/potentially illegal sources • gradually increase production, use, trade of credibly certified products

  4. WWF Skov 2000 Mesoamerican and CaribbeanForest and Trade Network WWF Oceania Buyers Group GFTN Forest and Trade Networks- spring 2003 WWF Skog 2000 • 18 local FTNs active in nearly 30 countries • 16 Demand Oriented FTNs, 2 Producer Groups

  5. Producer Groups Mesoamerican and CaribbeanForest and Trade Network Today: Russia, Central America Future: Romania/Bulgaria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Gabon/Cameroon, Ghana, Bolivia, Brazil, Surinam, Peru

  6. Purchasing Policy • long-term goal of sourcing from responsible forestry • through a stepwise approach • promotes legal compliance

  7. Purchasing Stepwise - Threshold requirements • known origin, legal status • High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs), protected areas • verified by a 3rd party

  8. Purchasing Stepwise - Transition phase • Producer Group membership • Action plan for achieving responsible management • MIV - Modular Implementation and Verification • 3rd party monitoring

  9. Purchasing stepwise - well managed certified sources • credible certification system • assessed according to World Bank/WWF criteria • currently FSC best meets WWF’s conservation goals

  10. Public Purchasing Policies • UK 2000: from legal & sustainable sources, • Denmark 2001: tropical wood from legal & sustainable sources • Germany 2002: tropical wood FSC certified • Belgium and Netherland: many local authorities have policies for FSC preference • Local authorities in Spain, Sweden, UK, Bel, NL have all specified FSC timber in projects

  11. IKEAs staircase model for solid wood • Step 1: Known origin, no wood from HCVFs, natural forests (min. requirement) • Step 2: legal compliance, no protected areas or plantations after ’94 (min. requirement) • Step 3: transition phase to step 4

  12. Step 4: • management in accordance with official standard for well-managed forests • established performance levels co-operatively developed by balanced group of environmental, economic & social stakeholders • verified by an independent 3rd party • Currently, FSC only standard recognised by IKEA.

  13. Responsible purchasing - key concepts • HCVF Identification & Management Toolkit • Producer Group Toolkit/MIV • World Bank-WWF Alliance Principles and Criteria for defining acceptable independent certification systems • Guide for local Governments margaret.rainey@wwf.se

  14. Conclusions • Stepwise purchasing policies can give preference to credibly certified products and to products from forests tracked for certification in GFTN Producer Groups • Promote legal compliance & HCVF protection • Large buyers active today, public & private • WWF GFTN offers solutions and ways forward

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