European forests
Forestwatch Issue 118
- Flawed European Commission assessment of agrofuels
- Agrofuel industry explores CDM as funding source
- CITES meeting cuts Peru’s mahogany exports, but fails to protect cedrofunding source
- Commission does its homework – but leaves it at home!
- LIFE+ draft application guidelines
- New report and website on pulp industry
- Hedge fund to finance pulp project
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Forestwatch Issue 117
- FLEGT negotiations a mixed bag
- Swiss bank pulls out of Ilisu Dam - Bank Austria under pressure
- CBD takes up agrofuels debate
- GM poplar tree field trial linked to agrofuels
- NATURA 2000 warning for Bulgaria
- EC aid - towards an environmental integration strategy
- No democratic scrutiny for EU-ACP aid programmes?
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Forestwatch issue 115
- Ilisu Dam - German,
- Austrian and Swiss governments approve export credits
- Commission slashes funds for forests
- World Bank forests initiative
- Bulgarian Natura 2000
- UK procurement policy seeks guidance on social issues
- Spring Council biofuel decision to fuel deforestation
- New Congo fund
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Forestwatch Issue 110
- FERN and ECA Watch urge OECD Secretary General to intervene in export credit negotiations
- Rural development failure on 2010 target?
- Transparency and EU funds
- Council conclusions on Forest Action Plan
- VPAs and governance
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Rural Development Regulation fails to meet EU targets
The environmental quality and health of European forests
is declining, and an increasing number of forest-dependent species are now
endangered as a result of poor forestry practices. However, the new Rural
Development Regulation for 2007–2013, which could be used to help prevent this
biodiversity loss, looks set to miss the mark, as shown by research in this FERN - TRN Briefing Note.
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EU subsidies for forestry practices in the 1990s - How EU taxpayers money gets lost in subsidising the forestry sector
This FERN/ TRN report examines the allocation of
public funding to forestry programmes within Europe. Europe's forests receive huge subsidies. In 13 countries assessed, over
8.6 billion EUR of public funds were spent on forestry programmes
during the period 1990-1999.
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