In 1998, China revised its Forest Law by imposing a logging ban on forests in natural reserves.
The measures introduced by the EUTR form part of the Bloc's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan, which was published in 2003.
"The mere expectation that the amendment to the Forest Law and its consequent weakening would be approved set off a disturbing wave of renewed deforestation in the Amazon region, as has been unequivocally demonstrated by data recently released by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), " they write.
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But Roberts will be a tougher sell, says Mark Hall, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and leading proponent of the idea that the Obamacare law will survive Supreme Court review.
The controversial recent revisions to the Forest Code, the national law, may yet slow the demand for planting, as they relax the constraints on landowners.
Instead of written contracts enforceable in a recognized court of law, Sino-Forest operates on the basis of personal relationships, cultivated by its senior management.
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Brazil's draft national REDD law also states that indigenous people own the forest carbon of their reserves.
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Tasked with enforcing the law, the park guards often cover the forest on foot, gathering clues to track an evasive enemy.
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Greenpeace's Indradi says Brazil's strong point has been to implement better forest governance, backed up with good monitoring and serious law enforcement.
Law-enforcement agencies had been searching the forest for Mr. Dorner since Thursday, when they discovered his abandoned truck on fire and followed footprints into the snow until they disappeared.
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But even that will require huge improvements in forest management, such as reforming land registries and tightening up law enforcement.
If Russia refuses to accept the body, Cambridge may be forced to take it, said Wake Forest University professor Tanya Marsh, an expert in U.S. law on the disposal of human remains.
Waltham Forest claims it has been able to get around the bureaucracy of introducing a by-law by deciding to class spit and urine as "waste".
Scientists studying such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, stockmarket crashes and forest fires have noticed, says Mr Buchanan, that their distributions all follow something called a power law.
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