Limiting global warming to 2° C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will
require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of …

Abstract The EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT)
adopted in 2003 includes bilateral trade agreements known as Voluntary Partnership …

Private institutions for third-party (eco-) labelling of food and wood products has been a
lively field of empirical research, peaking in the conception of certification as a “non-state …

Global forest governance has recently seen the emergence of a timber legality regime. In an
aim to regulate global timber trade flows, the US, the EU and Australia adopted laws …

The traceability of products has become an ever more important topic in global value chains
because governments, producers and consumers wish to have in-depth information on the …

This paper puts forward a research agenda for the study of the Voluntary Partnership
Agreements (VPAs). These agreements form the backbone of the European Union's (EU) …

This paper discusses how participatory policy-making processes such as the Voluntary
Partnership Agreement (VPA) negotiations are and should be organised to foster political …

ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) Green Deal gives increased attention to the
sustainability of international product cycles by implementing 'due diligence'requirements …

For over two decades, scientists have documented the alarming decline of global Peatland
ecosystems, regarded as the planet's most crucial carbon sinks. The deterioration of these …

The emergence of transnational approaches to combat illegal logging and related trade
through legality verification (LV) has spurred debate about the implications for the global …