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 hardwood agreements.

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. Forest related international conventions and agreements. The main ones are the convention on biological diversity cbd convention on. 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.

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

Tarasofsky 1995 and united nations 1998b.