Australia

The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment brought to our attention the recent commencement of consultations for the Sunsetting Review of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012. The Department...

The UNESCO Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) has just published six case studies from Asia and the Pacific to inspire and inform open school data policies in and beyond the region, and to empower citizens to fight...

DFAT innovation lab needs help plugging the aid budget with private investment While Australia’s foreign aid budget has shriveled to the smallest share of national income ever in the past five years, the Department of Foreign...

Update - Reforms to the illegal logging laws (February 2018) In October 2017, the government announced several reforms to the Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012. These were intended to streamline and clarify the...

This issue of ClientEarth's EUTR News provides an update on the operation of the EU’s law to address illegal logging, the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), from September to November 2017. As with all their previous editions, this...

The Australian Government on October 5 released a controversial plan to weaken the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act of 2012 (ILPA). If accepted, wood products from overseas certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the...

Article by Dr Beatriz Garcia from the School of law Illegal logging is an immensely profitable global activity, linked to corruption, human rights abuses, criminal networks, and environmental destruction. A 2017 study by the...

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