The ITTO Mission to Sarawak

Abstract

The debates and negotiations outlined in the previous two chapters over the TTTR’s normative structure and compliance mechanisms were conducted largely in the abstract. ITTO’s sustainable forest management guidelines and the various proposals for certification and labeling schemes were developed on paper, not implemented in practice. Consequently, none of the global coalitions had been required to make costly concessions to achieve sustainable forest management. The importance of ITTO’s mission to Sarawak lay precisely in the fact that it constituted the first practical attempt to apply the TTTR’s normative structure.