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    Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asian timber concessions: a critical evaluation of policy mechanisms and guidelines.

    Ecology and Society, 2008
    This paper assesses the tools and guidelines that have been developed to promote sustainable forest management (SFM) and the progress that has been made in Southeast Asia toward better logging practices. It specifically focuses on practices relevant to biodiversity issues.
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    UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative: BioTrade principles and criteria

    Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD, 2007
    The BioTrade principles and criteria have been defined by the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the BioTrade national programmes, and provide the core of the conceptual framework underlying the BioTrade Initiative's activities. They take into account the relevance of trade for specific species and ecosystems. This paper sets out the criteria to which BioTrade actors should aspire.
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    Environmental goods negotiations: issues and options for ensuring win-win outcomes

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    In analysing possible approaches for ensuring balanced trade gains in the ongoing WTO negotiations, the author suggests that a combination of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions and environmentally preferable products (EPP) of export interest to developing countries, could offer a balanced deal to developing countries.