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Forestwatch Issue 84

  • Draft Forest Code threatens Russia's forests
  • EU Accession: More protection or just more pulp?
  • New Publications
  • Monitoring the European Investment Bank
  • MEPs fail to tighten weak EU climate deal
  • EP supports EIR recommendations
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UNFF Effectiveness - Briefing: Monitoring and assessing progress through reporting

In this briefing FERN looks at the fulfilment, or lack thereof, of government commitments on monitoring and assessing progress through reporting, based on criteria developed at UNFF2.
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Forestwatch Issue 83

  • Forest certification no panacea
  • DRC: forest peoples set to lose rights
  • Commission's SIA study could fall flat
  • Further steps in the revision of the EU Forestry Strategy
  • NGOs call for EIR recommendations
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Forestwatch Issue 82

  • ITRE issues resolution on illegal logging
  • EU procurement directive adopted
  • EP draft says no to sinks
  • The Mumbai Forest Initiative
  • FSC audits Brazilian plantation project
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Forestwatch Issue 81

  • EU s buying rules put pressure on member states
  • CDM rules allow subsidies for mega-plantations
  • Poland uncomfortable in forest chair
  • EIB postpones decision on Lao mine
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Forestwatch Issue 78

  • People prioritised in parks plan
  • EU challenges BTC over human rights
  • World Forestry Congress: Big, but not great
  • Vote delayed for furniture ecolabel
  • More evidence of poor practice by Export Credit Agencies
  • EP backs indigenous rights
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Forestwatch Issue 76

  • NGOs set ECA reform agenda as OECD nears
  • Forest certification stalled in Cancun
  • Land rights policy
  • UNFF3: Another failure
  • PCF investors steered away from plantations
  • Minister s offensive comments expose flaws of Malaysian certification scheme
  • Forest industry smells green gold in CEE
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Appeal to Foria-ÖBF Forstmanagement GmbH

29 NGOs call for halt to logging in Carpathian mountains
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Letter to UNFF Secretariat

NGOs and IPOs raise concerns about UNFF and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests
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Forestwatch Issue 73

  • Carbon sinks debated but big question remain
  • Reorganisation at DG Environment
  • EU at crossroads on CDM carbon sinks
  • First step to link aid and climate change policies
  • Ecolabel on furniture
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