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Steve Johnson Assistant Director, Trade and Industry International Tropical Timber Organization

Sustainable Forest Management: International Experiences and Mexican Perspectives 22-25 September 2014, Mexico City. Promoting the implementation of SFM in the tropics. Steve Johnson Assistant Director, Trade and Industry International Tropical Timber Organization. Early Warnings.

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Steve Johnson Assistant Director, Trade and Industry International Tropical Timber Organization

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  1. Sustainable Forest Management: International Experiences and Mexican Perspectives 22-25 September 2014, Mexico City Promoting the implementation of SFM in the tropics Steve Johnson Assistant Director, Trade and Industry International Tropical Timber Organization

  2. Early Warnings • The Limits to Growth • Our Common Future • Rio Summit 1992

  3. Tropical Deforestation Rates • 1970-1980: 11.3 million ha/yr • 1980-1990: 16.4 million ha/yr • 1990-2000: 16 million ha/yr • 2000-2005: 13 million ha/yr • 2005-2010: 11 million ha/yr

  4. Outcomes of the Rio Earth Summit (1992) • Rio Declaration • Forest principles • Agenda 21 on sustainable development • CBD • UNFCCC • UNCCD

  5. Tropical forests sustainably managed in 1988 • Less than 1 million ha • IIED published report ‘No Timber Without Trees’

  6. ITTO Guidelines for the Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests • 41 principles • 36 possible actions • Areas covered: • Policy & legislation • Forest management • Socio-economic & financial aspects

  7. Criteria and Indicators (C&I) • Better understanding of SFM • Consistency in reporting • Basis for certification • 5 criteria and 27 indicators at national level • 6 criteria and 23 indicators at FMU level

  8. C&I Workshops and Activities • 28 training workshops organized • More than US$ 30 million in C&I activities, including workshops • 150 countries

  9. ITTO Guidelines • Guidelines for the Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests (1991) • Guidelines for the Establishment and Sustainable Management of Planted Tropical Forests (1993) • Guidelines on the Conservation of Biodiversity in Tropical Production Forests (1993)

  10. ITTO Guidelines • Guidelines on Fire Management (1998) • Guidelines for the Restoration, Manage-ment and Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests (2002) • ITTO/IUCN Guidelines for the Conserva-tion and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Tropical Timber Production Forests (2009) • Voluntary guidelines for the sustainable management of natural tropical forests (2014)

  11. Diagnostic Missions since 2000

  12. Forest Industry Support

  13. Certified Timber

  14. Certification • Origin: unsustainable management of tropical forests • Process: C & I  audits  certification • Certified area in tropical countries: 40 mill ha (2011), mostly FSC and MTCC (PEFC growing) • Share of tropical countries in global certified forest area still small (around 10% of total)

  15. SFM Tropics 2005 • 36 million ha sustainably managed • 25 million ha for production • 11 million ha for protection • Asia-Pacific: 20 million ha • Africa: 6 million ha • Latin America: 10 million ha

  16. SFM Tropics 2011 • 53 million ha sustainably managed • 30 million ha for production • 23 million ha for protection • Asia-Pacific: 20 million ha • Africa: 11 million ha • Latin America: 22 million ha

  17. Biodiversity Expedition in Sarawak • Vegetation survey • Fauna survey • Local communityinvolvement

  18. Lanjak-Entimau – Betung Kerihun • 1 million ha biodiversity conservation area

  19. Transboundary Conservation Areas

  20. MOU with CBD

  21. The ITTO Thematic Programmes • TP concept adopted in 2008 • REDDES • TFLET • TMT • CFME • IDE REDDES TFLET CFME SFM TMT IDE

  22. Notable Figures on Financing Global Financial Requirement for SFM • UNCED (1992)--------------------- ---US$31.25 b/yr • Pretoria Workshop (1996) ------ ---US$33 b/yr • ITTO (for all tropical forests)---- ---US$11 b/yr • UNFF (2006)1 ---------------------- ---US$69.3 b/yr • UNFCCC (to halve DD) (2007)2 --US$20 b/yr Note: 1 From “Brief study on funding and finance for forestry and forest-based sector” commissioned by UNFF Secretariat; Related disinvestments, including compensation for deforestation and forest degradation, are added. 2 From “Financing flows and needs to implement the Non-legally Binding Instrument on All types of Forests” prepared for AGF of CPF; Opportunity costs for REDD and afforestation/reforestation costs are included.

  23. Notable Challenges • Financing tropical SFM • Market access • Negative perceptions of tropical timber • Competing land uses • Poor governance • Equitable benefit sharing and stakeholder involvement

  24. ITTO-CITES Programme • Good example showing ITTO’s approach to promoting SFM • Focus on products from 8 tropical tree species listed in CITES Appendices • Assistance provided to facilitate management plans, inventories, non-detriment findings, wood identification, etc • $15 million funding since 2007; more funds being sought for new phase to start in 2015/16

  25. ITTO-CITES Programme

  26. Promoting sustainable development through trade, conservation and best-practiceforest management in tropical countries Website: www.itto.int Email: itto@itto.int; johnson@itto.int

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