There are various factors that contribute to deforestation and forest degradation, such as illegal logging, forest fires, and conversion of land to agricultural use, etc. In order to sustainably procure forest products such as timber, such factors must be considered as risks and avoided. However, in the case of timber, the higher the level of processing, the longer the supply chain becomes, and the more difficult it is to manage, posing a major challenge for downstream operators.
In this seminar, we examined what kind of risk avoidance methods (due diligence (DD)) are necessary to share the risks and challenges of deforestation and forest degradation throughout the supply chain and to ensure that each business in the supply chain delivers products to end users with appropriate avoidance of environmental and social risks that impede sustainable forest management, through case studies of businesses engaged in advanced supply chain management. The participants discussed what kind of risk avoidance methods (due diligence (DD)) are necessary for businesses in the supply chain to deliver products that appropriately avoid environmental and social risks that impede sustainable forest management to end users, by introducing case studies of businesses engaged in advanced supply chain management.
Sponsored by W-BRIDGE Project, Center for Integrated Environmental Research, Waseda University; Center for Tropical Agricultural Research, Kyushu University; FoE Japan, an international environmental NGO
cooperating Earth and Human Environment Forum, Fairwood Partners