On November 24-25, 2009, PROFOR, the World Bank, and the European Forestry Institute's East Asia Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Program co-hosted a workshop on Improving FLEG in the Mekong Region (Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Thailand) in Hanoi, Vietnam.
FLEG has been an important economic and environmental issue in Vietnam and other Mekong Region countries and is being increasingly addressed in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) policy dialogues. In addition, the changing regulatory framework in the European Union and the United States regarding...
