International Hardwood Agreements

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.

International hardwood agreements. The international tropical timber agreement itta 1983 is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources the international tropical timber organization was established under. International agreements agreements to protect tropical rainforests have been made between different countries through debt for nature swaps. Forest related international conventions and agreements. Tarasofsky 1995 and united nations 1998b.

This is when a country which is owed money by. 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. The main ones are the convention on biological diversity cbd convention on. The final agreement was reached after delegates to the un forum on forests worked through the night concluding just after dawn this morning.

There are also international agreements on the uses of tropical hardwoods and logging.