Draft Agenda - 08/07/2005

Chairs: Duncan Brack, Rosemary Hollis (Chatham House), John Hudson, Hugh Speechly (DFID).
Wednesday27th July
09.30  Introduction
Duncan Brack, Associate Fellow, Sustainable Development Programme, Chatham House
John Hudson/Hugh Speechly, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
9.45  Research updates (including 30 minute refreshment break at 11.30)
Impacts of reduction of illegal logging in European Russia on the EU and European Russia forest sector and trade – Dr. Andreas Ottitsch, Program Manager Dr. Alexander Moiseyev; Senior Researcher Lauma Kazusa, European Forest Institute
Indonesia research overview – Krystof Obidzinsky PhD, Forest and Governance Program CIFOR
Forest Investment study – Jade Saunders, Associate Fellow, Sustainable Development Programme, Chatham House
Hardwoodmarkets – Rupert Oliver, independent consultant
China trade update - Kerstin Canby, Forest Trends

12.30  G8
Katharine Thoday, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
13.00  Lunch
14.00  EU FLEGT - Action Plan progress
Neil Scotland, DG Development, European Commission

15.00   Refreshment break

15.30   Ministerial presentation and Question and Answer session
Elliot Morley MP, Minister of State for Climate Change and the Environment, DEFRA

16.30   FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement Negotiations
Malaysia – Vincent van den Berk,
Ghana – Clare Brogan, FRR
Ghana - Kyeretwie Opoku, Ghana Forest Watch

17.30  Drinks reception
Thursday 28th July
9.30  Private sector initiatives
Timber Trade Action Plan – Donna Day Lafferty, Tropical Forest Trust
PT Daisy and Tanjung Timberindo: delivering traceability from forest to production – Mark Thornton, TrackElite; Emily Blackwell, Soil Association
UK Trade Federation Update – Andy Roby, UK Timber Trade Federation
African Timber Trade Forums – Emily Fripp, Independent Consultant
GFTN (tbc)

11.30  Refreshment break.
12.00  Independent monitoring
IFM Guide Launch – David Young, Global Witness
VERIFOR and the Ecuadorian experience – Hans Thiel/David Brown/Cecilia Luttrell, Overseas Development Institute
Independent Monitoring and Transparency as a Strategy for Reducing Illegal Logging:  Updates from Russia and Central Africa – Dr. Lars Laestadius, Project Manager, Global Forest Watch Russia Jim Beck, Assistant Program Manager, Global Forest Watch Central Africa.

13.30  Lunch
14.30   Public procurement
UK developments - Bob Andrew, UK Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
UK CPET Phase two report - Ruth Nussbaum, Proforest and Emily Fripp, independent consultant on behalf of ERM

15.30   Refreshment break

16.00   East Asia Update
Indonesia-UK MoU and Draft Legality Standard – Moray McLeish, The Nature Conservancy
Indonesia Draft Legality Standard – Taufiq Alimi, Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute
East Asia FLEG update – Allan Thornton, Environmental Investigation Agency.

17.00  Case Study
China campaign impacts – Sam Lawson, Environmental Investigation Agency

17.00  DFID Forest Governance Programme Assessment
Phil Dearden, Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT)
University of Wolverhampton.

17.45   End of workshop