Colombia: stakeholders unite to support legal timber

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Colombia: stakeholders unite to support legal timber

Intersectoral Pact for Legal Timber has helped introduce concept of “legal timber” into everyday vocabulary

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Colombia is the first country in Latin America to introduce an Intersectoral Pact for Legal Timber (PIML, its initials in Spanish), which has become a model for the region. The PIML was launched in 2009 with 24 organizations and, eight years later, includes 70 public and private sector organizations. This pact has stimulated discussion and action on legal timber — wood from legal sources that is extracted, traded and used. Work to establish legal timber been led by the Colombian Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS, its acronym in Spanish) together with civil society, local communities and the private sector. The initiative is supported in part through financial and technical contributions by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme. The PIML contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources to eradicate poverty and eliminate hunger.

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