The Legislators Forum of the G8 countries and five developing countries (China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico), which met in Brasilia, Brazil, in February, called for several legislative and market measures at the national and international level to help combat illegal logging.

These measures include: a global system for recognizing source countries’ licensing schemes for legal timber; introduction of domestic legislation within G8 consumer countries that would make importing illegally produced timber (according to the laws of the producer country) an offense in the consumer country; and building protected markets for legal and sustainable timber products in consumer countries. The Forum recommended that the G8 support the introduction of a global Forest Transparency Initiative, designed to establish parliamentary oversight through committees in producer and consumer countries, and make available financial information that can improve accountability and governance of national forest resources. The Forum also made a number of proposals to stimulate allocation of investment capital to the tropical forestry sector.
Links to further information
BBC News Release, 21 February 2008
Agreed Illegal Logging Outcomes from GLOBE Brazil Legislator’s Forum