Certification and Procurement: EU Forest Watch
ForestWatch Issue 157 February 2011
February 17, 2011
- Commission’s ‘Buying Social’ guide disappoints
- Greater ECA accountability needed – but how?
- Emissions from land use: count them or reduce them?
- Dutch Government rightly wary of MTCS
- Paper dispute: Court finds against Italian NGO
- UK marks year of forests by selling theirs
| Document | Size |
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 FW 157 February 2011.pdf | 232.25 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 145 and Copenhagen Special
January 15, 2010
- 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)
| Document | 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 141
October 4, 2009
- 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
July 15, 2009
- Ilisu dam: teetering at the edge
- Liberia’s dubious timber concessions
- UK Environmental Audit Committee heeded
- EU aid: must do better
| Document | Size |
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| FW 140.pdf | 176.55 KB |
| Bonn II meeting update.pdf | 131.11 KB |
Forest Watch Issue 139
June 1, 2009
- New DG for Climate and Energy criticised
- GPP: Be heard!
- R-Plans: Indigenous and local communities stand firm
- Not so fast, M. de Larosière!
- Commission must sharpen development policy tools
- Cameroon VPA negotiation concludes
- Biomass update
| Document | Size |
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| FW 139.pdf | 211.67 KB |
| Biomass update.pdf | 74.63 KB |
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