Colombia’s forest sector is changing! Friday 27 June 2015

Alejandra Ospitia Executive Director

Republic of Colombia Capital: Bogotá, Distrito Capital (7.8 millions

hab.)

Language: Spanish

(official), numerous indigenous languages

Form of government: Presidential

Republic

Population: 48 million Inhabitants

(01-2015)

Land area : 1.14 million

km²

Administrative division: 32 departments and Bogotá, Distrito Capital

% illiteracy rate (2014): 5.7

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Owners of the Natural Forest

[NOMBRE DE CATEGORÍA]

[PORCENTAJE]

[CELLRANGE]; [PORCENTAJE]

Afro Colombian 7%

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Natural Parks 16%

Farm Workers 0,5%

59 million Hectares

The current market in Colombia

SOME LEGAL – FORMAL

A LOT OF ILLEGAL - INFORMAL

Caricatura BETO El Espectador

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Per Capita Wood consumption for industrial use

The industrial wood is the one used in the manufacture of forest products, including among others pulp and paper, lumber and panels. This category excludes wood used as fuel.

In Latina America from 1960 to 2010 per capita industrial wood consumption increased by 2.67 times.

In the same period, in Colombia’s consumption decreased by 3.5 times.

Is illegal timber responsible for this ? 0.0000  

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0.4000  

1961   1965   1970   1975   1980   1985   1990   1995   2000   2005   2010  

Colombia   Amarica  La8na  From Pizano S.A. Member of Fedemaderas 5

Legal Wood There are 73 Certified

forests and Chain of Custody in Colombia.

and

Of these 36 are members of FEDEMADERAS

For instance

In 2014, the 17 largest companies processed or used 4.79 million m3 of legal wood, including 5 FSC

All paper and cardboard produced in Colombia, with domestic or imported pulp comes from legal wood from plantation forests.

We do not know if imported forest products are legal 6

Negative Trade Balance of Wooden Furniture

*BACEX information, processed by FEDEMADERAS.

USD/FOB 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

EXPORTS 87.284.687 81.733.699 53.029.089 47.409.163 44.862.767 48.974.332 45.452.142 39.831.913

IMPORTS 26.795.049 30.979.894 26.548.246 27.624.059 39.883.817 47.782.482 46.313.813 50.234.045 TRADE BALANCE 60.489.638 50.753.805 26.480.843 19.785.104 4.978.950 1.191.850 -861.671 -10.402.132

COLOMBIA imports Wood and Products WITHOUT legal controls

-Resolución 070 of 10 -04- 2014.

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ILLEGAL

We currently do not have statistics on the illegal wood trade in Colombia. NGOs such as WWF estimate that illegal timber makes up over 40% of all timber traded in Colombia.

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Current Latin American market u  € 600 million for Latin America.

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change

u  $348 million USD cooperation for forest management

Latin American countries are also investing $millions to control costs, f o r f e i t u r e , a n d t h e h u g e investment of entrepreneurs and producers to be legal.

However as long as Latin America imports wood products without legality control then all this good will, effort and investment is at risk. 9

We propose we need a: u Reglamento Latinoamericano relativo

a la comercialización de la madera- RLM

u Latin American regulation on the marketing of wood- LARW

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Telford Wolverhampton university 06-2015 11

UNA SOCIEDAD QUE DESEA VIVIR EN PAZ

Une société qui souhaite vivre en paix A society that wishes to live in peace

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