Promotion of certified forest management (VP)

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The FC measure is a continuation of the ongoing project to promote certified forest management (2008 66 707). Its aim is to ensure that industrial forest use in the Congo Basin is increasingly carried out in accordance with the principles of sustainable management. The target group is the largely poor population in the peripheral areas of industrial forestry concessions and, more broadly, the world population due to the project's impact on the global goods of biodiversity and climate. The measures primarily concern improving the socio-economic and ecological sustainability of industrial management and improving the framework conditions for its certification. The support measures are mainly taking place in the Central African countries with industrial forest management (Cameroon, DRC, Congo, CAR and Gabon). The total cost of the demand-oriented open program, planned over a period of 6 years (phase 2 4 years), is estimated at around 35 million euros, of which 12 million euros is for the 2nd phase and 23 million euros is as part of a stock audit. Of these, 10 million and 20 million euros respectively will be financed from FC funds.