Online course on
Legal and
Sustainable
Supply
Chains
OUr Course
Short course description
1. Sustainable forest management
In module 1, you will venture into the world of sustainable forest management (SFM) and explore two important components of it – reduced impact logging and forest landscape restoration.
2. Assessing legality and achieving accountability
Module 2 will take you more deeply into legality assessment. It examines the ins and outs of trade regulation, and innovative technologies for improving market transparency and increasing accountability.
3. From legality to sustainability
Module 3 explores how meeting legality requirements for forest management ensures sustainable outcomes.
4. Markets and access to markets
Module 4 examines market aspects that will assist in maintaining, expanding and sustaining your business. This module also explores trade statistics, innovative marketing systems and international trade regulations.
Learning PLATFORM
Video lectures
Our experts will talk to you about specific topics related to LSSC.
Video cases
Explore videos that illustrate how LSSC are implemented on the ground.
Text material
You can read many relevant and up-to-date literature related to LSSC.
Forum
A platform to ask questions to instructor and interact with other students.
Latest News
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RoC adopts Forest Code, but Covid hits online TLAS roll-out
The promulgation of the Republic of the Congo’s (ROC) new Forest Code (Law 33-2020 July 8, 2020) marks a milestone for legal reform that started eight years ago. The need for reform was partly prompted by negotiations for then entry into force of the country’s FLEGT...
Honduras first Latin American country to sign VPA
The EU and Honduras signed their FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in Brussels on February 23 in Brussels. The event was billed as a milestone, with Honduras being the first Latin American country to reach this stage of its VPA, which takes it one step...
IMM furniture report flags need to boost EU FLEGT-licensed supplier options and producers’ licensing buy-in
To grow and develop EU and UK demand for FLEGT-licensed furniture requires promotion in these markets of what a FLEGT Licence stands for and the business benefits in terms of assured legality and exemption from EUTR due diligence. It also demands that more FLEGT VPA...