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Forest Governance and Policy Explained
A plain overview of who decides how forests are owned, used and protected, and the laws, markets, traditions and agreements that shape those decisions.
Managing and Measuring Forests
Policy, Rights and Certification
Laws, ownership and labels that shape how forests are used.
Carbon Accounting Rules for Forests
How forest carbon is counted in reports: pools, baselines, emission factors, and why the same forest can show different numbers under different rules.
Deforestation-Free Supply Chains
How commodities like cattle, soy, palm oil, cocoa and timber connect to forest loss, and what companies and governments do to trace and reduce that link.
Forest Certification Schemes
What voluntary forest certification checks, how forest management and chain-of-custody labels work, and the limits buyers should keep in mind.
Forest Management Plans
What a written forest management plan contains, how it is developed and updated, and why public forests and many private woodlands are required to have one.
Illegal Logging and Timber Traceability
Why illegal logging happens, what forms it takes, and how tracing wood from stump to shelf through documents, marking and testing helps enforce the law.
International Forest Agreements
A general look at global agreements, pledges and declarations about forests: what they try to do, how they differ from binding treaties, and where they fall short.
Land Tenure and Forest Rights
How who owns or holds rights to forest land shapes outcomes: types of tenure, bundles of rights, security of tenure, and why recognition matters.
Payments for Ecosystem Services
How paying landowners and communities for benefits like clean water, carbon storage and habitat works, where it has been used, and where it struggles.
Protected Areas and Forest Reserves
A comparison of strictly protected forest reserves with protected areas that allow some use, with notes on benefits, trade-offs, and how well protection works.
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