STATE OF THE WORLD's FORESTs 2001 Latin American Economic System The Latin American Economic System(LAES) is a regional intergovernmental organization that groups 28 Latin American and Caribbean countries: Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. LaES was established on 17 October 1975 by the Panama Convention. The objectives of LAES are to promote a system for consultation and coordination, aiming to achieve consensus in the form of joint positions and common strategies, for the Latin American and Caribbean region on economic issues. The common strategies may be for individual countries or groups of countries. LAES also serves to promote cooperation and integration among the countries of the region DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST SECTOR Forest cover varies greatly within the group, ranging from very heavily forested countries(Belize, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana) to countries with a small percentage of land area under forest(Barbados, Haiti El Salvador and Uruguay). All the Amazon basin countries are members of LAES, which accounts for its large amount of forest area, representing 25 percent of the worlds forest cover. Together, LAES member countries are important wood producers, particularly of woodfuel, industrial roundwood and sawnwood, and significant exporters of pulp for paper. The regions tropical forests have global significance in terms of biological diversity conservation and carbon storage. Land area(000 Quantity % of world total Total forest area, 2000(000 ha) /oodfuel (000 m) Industrial roundwood(000 m) 143 069 Forest area per capita Sawnwood('000 m3) 35157 Annual change in forest area, 1990-2000 Wood panels(,000 m) Thousand hectares 4669 Pulp for paper('000 tonnes) 10996 Percentage Paper and paperboard (000 tonnes)14 020 而帖e时puam19 Product quantity quantity USS thousands of world total USS thousands of world total Woodfuel (000 m) Sawnwood(, 000 m) 3999 987728 2626 638772 Wood panels(000 my) 324208 Paper and paperboard (000 tonnes) 5188 3919439 6 Nofe: ns -not sinificant, indicating a very small value.128 STATE OF THE WORLD’S FORESTS 2001 Latin American Economic System Quantity % of world total Woodfuel (’000 m3) 255 957 13 Industrial roundwood (’000 m3) 143 069 9 Sawnwood (’000 m3) 35 157 8 Wood panels (’000 m3) 5 966 4 Pulp for paper (’000 tonnes) 10 996 6 Paper and paperboard (’000 tonnes) 14 020 5 Forest resources Land area (’000 ha) 207 889 Total forest area, 2000 (’000 ha) 955 966 Percentage of land under forest 47.6 Forest area per capita (ha) 1.9 Annual change in forest area, 1990-2000 - Thousand hectares -4 669 - Percentage - 0.5 Production of wood-based products, 1998 Product Export Export value Import Import value quantity quantity US$ thousands % of world total US$ thousands % of world total Woodfuel (’000 m3) 8 1 017 1 19 704 n.s. Industrial roundwood (’000 m3) 2 980 190 098 3 125 23 936 n.s. Sawnwood (’000 m3) 3 999 987 728 4 2 626 638 772 3 Wood panels (’000 m3) 1 688 598 400 4 974 324 208 2 Pulp for paper (’000 tonnes) 4 644 1 776 446 13 1 204 585 225 3 Paper and paperboard (’000 tonnes) 1 561 1 089 865 2 5 188 3 919 439 6 Note: n.s. = not significant, indicating a very small value. International forest products trade: quantity and value, 1998 The Latin American Economic System (LAES) is a regional intergovernmental organization that groups 28 Latin American and Caribbean countries: Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. LAES was established on 17 October 1975 by the Panama Convention. The objectives of LAES are to promote a system for consultation and coordination, aiming to achieve consensus in the form of joint positions and common strategies, for the Latin American and Caribbean region on economic issues. The common strategies may be for individual countries or groups of countries. LAES also serves to promote cooperation and integration among the countries of the region. DESCRIPTION OF THE FOREST SECTOR Forest cover varies greatly within the group, ranging from very heavily forested countries (Belize, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana) to countries with a small percentage of land area under forest (Barbados, Haiti, El Salvador and Uruguay). All the Amazon basin countries are members of LAES, which accounts for its large amount of forest area, representing 25 percent of the world’s forest cover. Together, LAES member countries are important wood producers, particularly of woodfuel, industrial roundwood and sawnwood, and significant exporters of pulp for paper. The region’s tropical forests have global significance in terms of biological diversity conservation and carbon storage