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Sourcing timber from responsibly managed
sources Margaret Rainey WWF Global Forest and
Trade Network
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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,
  BQ/Kingfisher (50 of demand)
• Creating responsible forestry on the ground
• Market links between responsible suppliers
  buyers

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• 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

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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

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Producer Groups
Today Russia, Central America Future
Romania/Bulgaria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam,
Gabon/Cameroon, Ghana, Bolivia, Brazil, Surinam,
Peru
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• Purchasing Policy
• long-term goal of sourcing from responsible
  forestry
• through a stepwise approach
• promotes legal compliance

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

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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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_at_wwf.se

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• 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