Increasing global demand for food and energy and the prospect of a forest conservation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change represent major opportunities and challenges for bioeconomy development at tropical forest margins.
Forest concessions have long been used as an instrument for the allocation of rights to harvest and manage public forests in both northern and southern countries.
This report, by UNEP and INTERPOL, focuses on illegal logging and its impacts on the lives and livelihoods of often some of the poorest people in the world set aside the environmental damage.