Resources

Browse and download our latest resources related to certification. Simply scroll down the list to browse the available files or click on the links below to jump directly to your category of interest.

News releases
ITTO Environmental Services projects: Call for nominations

23 October 2008
New Work Program, Action Plan on Council Agenda

5 November 2007

Yokohama, Japan
Most Extensive Survey Ever of World's Remaining Tropical Forests Reveals Upward Trend in "Sustainable" Management Yet 95 Percent of Tropical Forests Remain at Risk

25 May 2006

Mexico City, Mexico
New forest treaty agreed

31 January 2006

Yokohama, Japan
Legality shapes as new certification flash-point

25 April 2005

Yokohama, Japan
Mutual respect will help solve divisive forest issues, says Council Chair

13 December 2004

Yokohama, Japan
Promote trade in sustainably produced timber - ITTO

20 July 2004

Interlaken, Switzerland
Council adds US$4.9 million for action in tropical forests

17 May 2003

Panama City, Panama
New forest partnerships aim to strengthen forest management in the tropics

9 November 2002

Yokohama, Japan
Should a phased approach be taken to certification?

18 May 2002

Denpasar, Indonesia
Cooperation for tropical timber certification urged

16 May 2002

Denpasar, Indonesia
ITTO to meet on forest restoration, mangroves, Congo Basin

9 May 2002

Denpasar, Indonesia
ITTO to host certification workshop

28 February 2002

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO puts the case for open market access

3 September 2001

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO to help producers develop certification

2 June 2001

Yaoundé, Cameroon
African ministers call for more action on certification

28 May 2001

Yaoundé, Cameroon
Heads of African forestry to consult on sustainable forest management

18 May 2001

Yokohama, Japan
Reports
Developing forest certification

May 2008

This report describes developments in forest certification worldwide, with a focus on the tropics, including a review of progress towards increasing the comparability and acceptance of forest certification systems. Additional documentation: Unedited Annexes (see next item)
Developing forest certification (unedited annexes)

May 2008

These unedited annexes contain country case studies of certication initiatives in country list.
Report on the review of the US market for tropical timber products

July 2007

This report gives an overview of trends in the US tropical timber market.
Consolidating Sustainable Forest Management　Certification in Indonesia Ex-Post Evaluation Report

7 May 2007
Status of tropical forest management 2005

2006

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the forest management situation in all 33 of ITTO's producer member countries. Using information submitted by the countries themselves and supplemented by data from a wide range of other sources, it addresses the policy and institutional settings in each country, the approaches taken to the allocation and management of resources, and the status of management of those resources.
Review of the French timber market

November 2005

This report gives an overview of trends in France's tropical timber market, recommending, among other things, that tropical timber producers grow the market for lesser known species by processing them locally to international standards.
Forest certification: pending challenges for tropical timber

October 2002

This report identifies the key challenges that tropical producers must meet if they are to increase the area of certified forest and the volume of certified timber they put on the market.
Comparative study on the auditing systems of sustainable forest management

July 2000

The purpose of this study is to assist ITTO producer countries in developing systems for the auditing of sustainable forest management.
Timber certification in transition

May 1996

This report was commissioned by the International Tropical Timber Council in 1995 as part of the Council's ongoing analysis of the certification issue.
TFU_Articles
Forest certification in Indonesia

2007 No 3
Training in SFM

2007 No 3
Meetings

2007 No 2
Courses and letters

2007 No 1
Meetings

2007 No 1
Papua New Guinea – the other side of the story

2006 No 4
Tracking the wood

2006 No 4
Meetings

2006 No 3
Forest certified in Congo

2006 No 2
Brazil gets new forest law

2005 No 4
Courses

2005 No 4
Meetings

2005 No 4
On the conference circuit

2005 No 2
Private concession certified in Malaysia

2005 No 1
Courses

2005 No 1
Meetings

2005 No 1
Out on a limb

2004 No 4
Learning from success

2004 No 3
Timber and the circle of life

2004 No 3
On the conference circuit

2004 No 3
Tropical and topical

2004 No 2
Teak as social engineer

2004 No 1
Tropical and topical

2004 No 1
Noticeboard

2004 No 1
Repairing the road to SFM

2003 No 4
Training local auditors

2003 No 4
Certifying Africa

2003 No 3
The road to sustainability

2003 No 1
Forest certification: pending challenges for tropical timber

2002 No 3
Selling wood, not forests

2002 No 3
PEFC

2002 No 3
The challenge of growing certification

2002 No 3
The Forest Stewardship Council's expansion plan

2002 No 3
Can national schemes meet international requirements?

2002 No 3
Forest certification and biodiversity

2002 No 3
ITTO's role in certification

2002 No 3
Training the assessors

2001 No 4
Responsible importing of tropical timber

2001 No 4
Others
Unedited Annexes of TS 29 Developing Forest Certification

July 2008

Brazil (English) Congo (French) Gabon (English) Ghana (English) Indonesia (English) Malaysia (English)