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Forestwatch Issue 71

  • Aarhus Convention: First EU directives
  • 5-step guide to the EU's implementation of Aarhus
  • Ecolabel criteria
  • Community land rights: Scottish reforms
  • Flexibility is key to FSC success in Indonesia
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Forestwatch Issue 70

  • Illegal logging needs EU legislation
  • Cambodia: Global Witness denies expulsion
  • Warm words for indigenous peoples
  • FSC faces accusations from rainforest group
  • Conflict timber in DRC
  • New publications 2002
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Forestwatch Issue 69

  • EC aid misses link between forests and poverty
  • Dirty projects must stop, saya ECA coalition
  • Estonian illegal timber laundered in the EU
  • No sign of sustainable development in draft Convention
  • Poland: Bialowieza
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Forestwatch Issue 68

  • Illegal logging: regulation plea
  • World Bank to log primary rainforests
  • Brazil seizes illegal mahogany shipment
  • Norwegian doubts grow as climate talks stall
  • Australian NGOs reject AFS certification
  • DRC: Timber profits fuelling war
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Forestwatch Issue 64

  • Public procurement directive: step forwards or backwards?
  • ITTO back in the spotlight
  • No progress with EU ECAs
  • SBSTTA to decide sink rules
  • EU and Japan ratify Kyoto Protocol
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Forestwatch Issue 63

  • EU Commission serious in addressing illegal timber trade
  • Ministers call upon the WSSD to halt biodiversity loss
  • Has the CBD been implemented?
  • More land rights cases won
  • Mutual recognition and the ITTO
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Forestwatch Issue 62

  • New report shows way forward for forests in CBD
  • High stakes for forests after UNFF
  • Forest definitions: a chance to get real
  • How to assess forest certification schemes
  • Villagers take timber company to court
  • ECAs: Commission and Council take two more steps on path to progress
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Forestwatch Issue 61

  • UNFF reputation on the line in NY
  • EU Ecolabel! Great for hiding the truth!
  • Axe for DG
  • Sustainable development or business as usual
  • Illegal logging
  • Reform ECAs!
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Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An independent review and recommendations for action

A Global Forest Coalition/Fern review monitoring how 21 countries have met their commitments to key forest related CBD articles and decisions. Full report in English, French or Spanish, plus 21 country reports.

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Forestwatch Issue 60

  • Incoherence reigns at intergovernmental level
  • EU Ecolabel: improved but missing the point
  • 6EAP: forest amendments
  • Chance for green procurement
  • NGOs go financial
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