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Legal Forest Products and International Trade: A Regional Perspective.August 9 10, 2012

Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mxico City, Mxico

August 9th

8:00 8:30 Registration

8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks (Alicia Grimes, Ernesto Herrera, AdamGrant)

9:30 - 10:30 Forest Legality in Latin America:An OverviewAn overview of inter-regional trade of forest products, movement towards legality,and impacts in the region.

Participants:

Intro and moderator: Alicia Grimes (USAID) Regional overview: Guillermo Navarro (EARTH University) Regional trade: A mexican perspective, Ernesto Herrera (Reforestamos Mxico)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 1:00Forest Legality and Trade in Latin America: Select CountriesExperts from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Peru will provide anoverview of the harvest and trade of forest products in their respective countries and thecorresponding economic and ecological impacts.

Participants:

Moderator: Victor Lleras, Utz Che Mexico: Sergio Madrid, Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible Guatemala: Yuri Melini, CALAS Colombia: William Braham, Instituto de Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacifico Peru: Julia Urrunaga,Environmental Investigation Agency

Honduras: Ramn Alvarez; AMADHO


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Legal Forest Products and International Trade: A Regional PerspectiveMexico City, August 9-10 2012

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1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:45 Small Forest Enterprises and the Timber TradeForest community leaders from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Peruwill discuss their efforts to sustainably manage forest resources, comply with

national and international regulations, and challenges to market access whileremaining financially viable.

Participants: Moderator:Arturo Santos, IUCN Mexico: Gustavo Snchez,Red MOCAF Guatemala: Julio Escalante, Empresa Comunitaria de Servicios del Bosque(FORESCOM) Colombia: Jhuver Gonzalez Rivear; Representante Legal, Los Delfines Peru: Juan Tapayuri CORPI, Alto Amazonas, Per Honduras: Melvin Cruz, Fundacin Madera Verde


4:15 - 5:30 Implications & Perspectives from Mexican Forestry Sector

Participants: Moderator: Tania Mijares, Realidad Climtica Mxico Ejidos La Ciudad, San Pablo y Vencedores:Alma Lili Mena Cmara de la Industria Maderera: Jos Cibrin Tovar, CONAFOR-PNUD-GEF: Juan ManuelBarrera, CONAFOR: Ignacio Antonio Gonzalez Hernandez,

5:30-6:30 Cocktail


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August 10th

8:00 8:30 Registration

8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast and Regional Trade Issues (Recap), Filippo del Gatto

9:30 - 11:00Emerging Global Legislation affecting trade in wood productsThe Lacey Act and European Union Timber Regulation both prohibit the import ofillegal sourced forest products. Panelist will discuss these laws and their impacts athome and abroad.

Participants:

Moderator: Mauricio Limn, Undersecretary for Environmental ProtectionManagement, SEMARNAT U.S. Policies on Combating Illegal Logging and Associated Trade, and the U.S.

Lacey Act: Gary Lougee APHIS, David Olivier USTR Implications of the U.S. Lacey Act: Tom Bewick, EIA. Timber Trade Regulation: Didier Devers, EFI


11:30 -1:00 International Buyers PerspectivesExamples of companies addressing the demand for legal products

Participants:

Moderator: Ernesto Herrera, Reforestamos Mexico

Taylor Guitars: Chris Cosgrove International Wood Products Association (IWPA): Ashley Amidon Masisa Mxico: Leo Schlesinger

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 3:00 Technology Tools to Promote the Trade of Legal Wood ProductsAvailable and upcoming technologies for wood identification and tracking

Participants:

Moderator: Victor Lopez Illescas, Utz Che

Wood ID: Shelley Gardner, USFS Helveta: Philip Briscoe, Barcoding and computer systems tracking Double Helix: Darren Thomas, DNA tracing



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3:30 - 4:30 Stakeholder Initiatives to Promote Trade of Legal Wood Products

Initiatives to support the trade of forest products of legal origin

Participants: Moderator: Tom Bewick Veeduria, Per: Juan Tapayuri Forest Legality Alliance: Ruth Nogueron Forest Legality FrameworkTRAFFIC- for Mexico: Eduardo Jr. Arenas,Reforestamos Mxico FLEGT, Didier Devers, EFI WWF-GFTN: Daniel Arancibia

4:30 Thank you and Closing

This event is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International

Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation

Agency and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government

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