Bioenergy: EU Forest Watch
ForestWatch Issue 159 April 2011
April 11, 2011
- Carbon as commodity: Reducing emissions or filling pockets?
- Will biofuels sustainability criteria prevent destruction of biodiversity?
- Many viewpoints, one view: Rethink carbon offsets
- World Forest Day: putting on a brave face
- Palm oil plantations: A problem shifts from here to there
- SGS barred from issuing new FSC certificates in Brazil – for now
- Shine a light on ECA activities
- UK: Finally, a precedent to rely on
- Parliament vote to improve ECA accountability
| Document | Size |
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 FW 159 April double 2011.pdf | 279.32 KB |
ForestWatch Issue 158
March 11, 2011
- Smoke and Mirrors: The World Bank fails the world’s forests and peoples. Again.
- EU ETS: Much toil and trouble, few reductions
- Swedes mark year of forests by logging old-growth woodlands
- Forest energy production decreases carbon storage
- Greater attention to role of urban forests is needed
| Document | Size |
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| FW 158 March 2011.pdf | 226.41 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 156 and Cancun and International Year of the Forest Specials
January 21, 2011
Welcome to the first Forest Watch of 2011. This is also United Nations Year of the Forest and so FERN has written a two-page Forest Watch special looking at the state of play for forests through the lens of our campaigns which can be accessed below. Last month too was an important month for forests due to decisions made at the 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancun. FERN’s two-page special report from that meeting is attached below. Articles in this months Forest Watch include:
- VPA processes see slow progression
- Paralysis by Analysis
- ‘Sustainable on Paper’
- Congo approves a law to protect indigenous peoples
- EEAS and DEVCO: the new EU external relations jargon
| Document | Size |
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| Cancun update.pdf | 136.32 KB |
| Year of the forest special.pdf | 133.3 KB |
| FW 156 January 2011.pdf | 607.47 KB |
| FR_Cancun-update.pdf | 561.67 KB |
ForestWatch Issue 155 December 2010
December 15, 2010
- Social criteria are permissible in timber procurement policy
- Questions remain about Cancun forests agreement
- A bold move: the EP votes to address ECA flaws
- The future of CAP: opinions welcome
- Agrofuel plans drive destruction
| Document | Size |
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| FW 155 December 2010.pdf | 217.33 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 153 and FLEGT Update
October 19, 2010
- An update on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreements
- Binding Forest Agreement: Déjà Vu
- EAP: Seven times a charm?
- www.loggingoff.info relaunched and bilingual
- BITs: The Commission passes the baton?
- LIFE+ goes on?
- Biofuels lawsuits
| Document | Size |
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| FW 153 October 2010.pdf | 221.52 KB |
| VPA Update October 2010.pdf | 137.67 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 152 September 2010
September 23, 2010
- Biofuel landscape changing, but will ILUC be taken into account?
- Another land case won in Sarawak
- Carbon trading explained
- Small improvements in draft Ecolabel criteria
- World Bank palm oil strategy “reckless”
- REDD+ Partnership’s chaotic, intransparent process
| Document | Size |
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| FW 152 September 2010.pdf | 189.81 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 147 and Biomass Report Special
March 12, 2010
- EU Emissions Trading Scheme an ‘open door’ for crime?
- Green Paper shows Commission is green on forest protection
- German state allows short-rotation plantations in forests
- Growing biofuel concern
- WTO versus WEO
- Biomass Report shows increasing lack of policy coherence on forest protection
| Document | Size |
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| FW 147 March 2010.pdf | 192.74 KB |
| Biomass report special.pdf | 133.65 KB |
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