Publications

This issue of the FLA newsletter includes: updates on FLA's latest activities, Greetings from the new FLA Manager: Chip Barber, The Lacey Act and the governance of the Brazilian forest sector.

This booklet provides an overview of key legality issues in the global wood trade that businesses should consider when purchasing wood and paper-based products. Topics covered include trade regulations (e.g., the Lacey Act, the European Union Timber Regulation, and the Australian Illegal Logging Prohibition), public and private procurement policies, trade bans, and resources for meeting legality requirements.

This issue of the FLA newsletter includes: updates on FLA's latest activities, DNA Analysis Can Reshape Thinking on Supply Chains, Building Capacity to Implement Legal Timber Trade in Ghana.

This issue of the FLA newsletter includes: updates on FLA's latest activities, leveling the playing field for legal timber in Brazil, Lumber Liquidators raid shows companies need to heed U.S. Lacey Act.

Staples, Inc., the world’s largest reseller of office products, is in the midst of adapting its sourcing practices to ensure that its products meet not only its own sustainable procurement policy, but the requirements of the U.S. Lacey Act.

The twelfth newsletter of the Forest Legality Alliance (July 2013) feature updates on FLA’s latest activities, APHIS Lacey report released, recent publications.

The eleventh newsletter of the Forest Legality Alliance (April 2013) profiles case studies published by the Forest Legality Alliance on Honduran mahogany and IKEA's risk management approach in China. It also discusses the anti-deforestation pledges of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). An additional article suggests some lessons from the Economist World Forests Summit in Stockholm.

This booklet provides questions and answers on the European Timber Regulation, the U.S. Lacey Act, and the Australian Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill.

The Forest Legality Alliance series of case studies is intended to show commercial buyers of wood and paper-based products, especially those who trade in species and/or source from places with a perceived risk of illegality, how their supply chains can conform with U.S. legal requirements on importing certain types of wood.

The tenth newsletter of the Forest Legality Alliance (January 2013) recaps the Dec. 2012 meeting of the Forest Legality Alliance. It also profiles the third edition of the Guide to Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products, a major WRI publication aimed at assisting purchasing managers. An additional article discusses Disney Corp.'s new paper purchasing policy, and a guest piece from Roberto Waack (Amata) describes multistakeholder initiatives to counter illegal and informal activities in the Brazilian natural forestry sector.