Myanmar's Natural Resources in Transition: Forest Legality Week

Oct 25, 2018 | World Resources Institute and Forest Trends
Washington, DC
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At WRI's Forest Legality Week, Art Blundell of Forest Trends will be discussing the role of natural resources in conflict and peace agreements, and how Myanmar’s forest sector can boost – or undermine – economic growth during the country’s transition from military rule to more democratic governance.

Forest Trends has recently expanded our work in Myanmar to promote equitable and accountable management of natural resources for peacebuilding, with particular focus on Myanmar’s forest-rich ethnic territories. This work aims to enable a nationally-owned, inclusive peace process through greater understanding of international best practice and dialogue for the management, use, and sharing of resource revenues under a Federal political system. Art will also present new research on the first-ever Myanmar Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (MEITI) forestry report and its implications for supply- and demand-side efforts to improve the legality of Myanmar’s timber exports.

For more information and to register, please contact Naomi Bask Treanor at nbasik@forest-trends.org.

Where: Washington, D.C., USA

When: 25 October 2018

Organizers: World Resources Institute and Forest Trends