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ForestWatch special: Legally binding agreement on forests in Europe: “same, same but different”?

June 7, 2011

Ministers will gather in mid June 2011 in Oslo to take a decision about whether to enter into negotiations on a legally binding agreement (LBA) for forests in Europe. NGOs question what the added value of this instrument will be and whether an LBA will really be able to deal with potential conflicts of interest concerning the future of Europe’s forests. This ForestWatch special outlines the main issues.

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ForestWatch Issue 158

March 11, 2011
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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
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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

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ForestWatch Issue 154 November 2010

November 9, 2010
  • Prelude to Cancun: Tianjin climate talks update
  • CAP reform: missing the opportunity to protect forests
  • Addressing carbon fraud?
  • Malaysian certificate rejected
  • How to reduce Madagascan forest destruction?
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application/pdf iconFW 154 November 2010.pdf214.71 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
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application/pdf iconFW 152 September 2010.pdf189.81 KB

ForestWatch Issue 151 July 2010 and special update on Bonn UNFCCC meeting

July 20, 2010
  • Prohibition on illegal timber is here!
  • Bioenergy policy will lead to a carbon debt
  • More human approaches
  • Missing: political will to protect forests in the EU
  • Sweden’s unsustainable forestry
  • Ecolabel still endorses forest destruction
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application/pdf iconBonn update.pdf149.51 KB

Forestwatch Issue 149 May 2010

May 18, 2010
  • World Bank begins palm oil consultation
  • CAP reform: speak up
  • Legal timber trade in Cameroon: How far from paper to practice?
  • Additional measures needed to protect forests
  • EU Ecolabel revisited
  • Bolivia: Putting people in climate talks 
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Forestwatch Issue 148 April 2010

April 8, 2010
  • The FLEGT process continues to give a voice to civil society
  • Time to end subsidies that harm biodiversity
  • Dutch NGOs lodge a complaint concerning MTCS
  • EU Ecolabel – Not so green
  • Disingenuous biofuels numbers
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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
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application/pdf iconFW 147 March 2010.pdf192.74 KB
application/pdf iconBiomass report special.pdf133.65 KB