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Title: Transparency Index of the Supplying Countries’ Institutions and Tree Cover Loss: Determining Factors of EU Timber Imports?
Authors: Moral-Pajares, Encarnación
Martínez-Alcalá, Concepción
Gallego-Valero, Leticia
Caviedes-Conde, Angela Andréa
Abstract: Illegal logging and the associated deforestation have serious consequences for biodiversity, the climate, the economy and society. The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) prohibits the placing of illegally harvested timber or timber products on the market. The objective of this paper is to analyse the recent evolution of EU imports of these products from the international market, in order to check how the transparency index of the supplying countries’ institutions and tree cover loss have influenced this trajectory. To that end, a panel data model is estimated with 228 observations from 38 exporting countries between 2012 and 2017. The results show that EU timber imports have a direct association with the transparency index and an inverse relationship with tree cover loss; both these relationships are highly significant at the one-percent level. Other significant factors are the performance of the EU construction sector (as a proxy for timber demand) and timber supply. In the short and medium-term, Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) signed between the EU and non-EU timber-producing countries have a negative influence on the supply to EU member states. This study presents an analysis of EU timber imports after the implementation of the EUTR, providing specific conclusions that can inform policymakers’ efforts to foster sustainable forest management.
Keywords: EU
Timber
EUTR
Tree cover loss
forest certification
Issue Date: 19-Sep-2020
Publisher: MDPI
Citation: Moral-Pajares, E., Martínez-Alcalá, C., Gallego-Valero, L., & Caviedes-Conde, Á. A. (2020). Transparency index of the supplying countries’ institutions and tree cover loss: Determining factors of EU timber imports?. Forests, 11(9), 1009.
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