EU Forest Watch
Forestwatch Issue 145 and Copenhagen Special
- EU Member States reject prohibition of the sale of illegal timber
- NGOs reject Ecolabel for copying and graphic paper
- Will Europe follow America’s ECAs in reducing GHGs
- Integrated Product Policy and Beyond
- Member States’ support binding biomass criteria
- Copenhagen Update (Available in French and Spanish)
| Documents | Size |
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 FW 145 Jan 2010.pdf | 184.82 KB |
| Copenhagen update.pdf | 124.79 KB |
| Copenhagen update in French.pdf | 189.37 KB |
| Copenhagen update in Spanish.pdf | 132.46 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 144 and update from Barcelona
- Climate, energy and environment change
- A binding forest agreement?
- Biomass: binding sustainability criteria needed
- FERN.org relaunched
- First US illegal timber investigation
- EU ratifies Ghana VPA
- Palm oil funding frozen
- Update from UNFCCC Barcelona meeting
| Documents | Size |
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| FW 144 December 2009 | 213.17 KB |
| Barcelona update | 118.32 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 143 November 2009
- EU Council reaches a troubling conclusion
- Flawed bioenergy policies will fail EU forests
- CAR VPA negotiations calendar ambitious
- CDM to open doors to large scale plantations
| Document | Size |
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| FW 143 Nov 2009.pdf | 212.16 KB |
Forest Watch - Update on Bangkok negotiations
| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 116.83 KB |
Forestwatch issue 141
- Obstacles on the road to sustainable bioenergy criteria
- Climate haggling... to be continued
- UK timber procurement: Help shape criteria
- The Saami Council applauds breakthrough
| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 179.99 KB |
Forestwatch issue 140
- Ilisu dam: teetering at the edge
- Liberia’s dubious timber concessions
- UK Environmental Audit Committee heeded
- EU aid: must do better
| Documents | Size |
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| FW 140.pdf | 176.55 KB |
| Bonn II meeting update.pdf | 131.11 KB |
Forest Watch Issue 138
- Billions of Euros available for afforestation
- Forest activists win prize
- Recession+ETS=few carbon reductions in the EU
- Adapting to climate change?
- Republic of Congo to sign a VPA with the EU
- Special report from the UNFCCC forest climate meeting in Bonn
| Document | Size |
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| FW 138.pdf | 259.51 KB |
Forest watch Issue 137
- Fossil Fools day 2009 targets the G20
- India: The hidden costs of free trade
- Natura 2000 and CEPF
- Urging recognition of forest peoples’ rights
- Liberia negotiations begin
- EU calendar online
- FERN moves to Mundo-B
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| PDF | 246.68 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 136
- Forests in EU-China bilateral agreements
- Liberia received praise where due
- Closer eye on EU finance?
- EU illegal timber proposal strengthened
- Climate Package disappoints
- DG ENV boss shuns offsets
- Reducing emissions or playing with numbers?
| Documents | Size |
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| FW 136.pdf | 243.52 KB |
| Playing with numbers.pdf | 112.95 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 135
- DRC: ninety-one logging contracts cancelled
- Communication acknowledges failings of the CDM
- Diluting the Renewable Energy Directive’s benefits
- The trouble with market schemes: A US example
| Documents | Size |
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| OPEN | 268.4 KB |
| FLEGT Update | 124.19 KB |