3.4 Law Relating to Forests

The forests' regime: the non-binding instrument's world (the failed forest convention — the Rio's forest principles; the UN Forest Instrument; the SDG 15) — the forests' law's softness (the sovereignty-and-trade politics); the hard-law faces: the timber-trade regimes (the ITTA; the FLEGT-and-EU timber regulations), the forests' climate link (the REDD+ — the reducing-emissions- from-deforestation-and-degradation: the results-based payments — the forests' carbon economics); the certification world (the FSC-type private regimes); the biodiversity-and-indigenous faces (the forest-dependent peoples' rights — the UNDRIP's interface).