International Hardwood Agreements

Forest related international conventions and agreements.

International hardwood agreements.

There are also international agreements on the uses of tropical hardwoods and logging. Legally and non legally binding commitments on forests have been made through a large number of global conventions and agreements see downes 1999. 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 final agreement was reached after delegates to the un forum on forests worked through the night concluding just after dawn this morning.

International agreements agreements to protect tropical rainforests have been made between different countries through debt for nature swaps. Tarasofsky 1995 and united nations 1998b. This is when a country which is owed money by. Its mandate was renewed by the international tropical timber agreement 1994 and again by the international tropical timber agreement 2006 which aims to promote sustainable management.

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.