Jean Bakouma, Deputy Director, Production and sustainable consumption, Responsible of the Forest Program at WWF France

Biography

Senior economist on the economic and institutional aspects of the sustainable forest management in Africa, Jean Bakouma works on promoting deforestation-free supply chain and production, on the traceability, sustainable forest value chain assessment and development in Congo Basin, and on the development of natural rubber sustainability criteria and indicators in South-East Asia, setting up multi stakeholder platform regarding natural rubber.

He is also former Lecturer at the French National School of the Rural Engineering of Waters and forests in Nancy, and former consultant on behalf FAO, World Bank, ITTO. E.U. Finally, Jean Bakouma is part-time lecturer at the university Paris East Val-de-Marne in Maste2 “Biological Engineering for the environment”, and co-author in the French raw materials yearbook (Cyclops) since 2006, holder of a PhD in economics of the university of Nancy.

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Does FSC certification in the Congo Basin guarantee social responsibility?

While FSC certification finds its origins in the mediatized denunciations of deforestation by NGOs, the weak governance of States, and the impossible boycott of tropical wood on world markets, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), for its part, has made the headlines with child labor in Asia, notably in the shoe industry, and ecological disasters, particularly in the marine transport of hydrocarbons, then recently, with the human tragedy caused by the collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in 2013. The denunciations of some and the indignation of others have ended up going beyond economic imperatives alone, in order to mainstream social and environmental considerations into business activity.

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Jean Bakouma

Deputy Director, Production and sustainable consumption, Responsible of the Forest Program at WWF France

Biography

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Does FSC certification in the Congo Basin guarantee social responsibility?

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