European forests
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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| OPEN | 84.63 KB |
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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| OPEN | 83.9 KB |
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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| OPEN | 99.51 KB |
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
| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 94.42 KB |
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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| OPEN | 164.49 KB |
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
| Documents | Size |
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| OPEN | 152.41 KB |
| Special Report: Outcome of COP6 of the CBD | 30.53 KB |
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
| Documents | Size |
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| OPEN | 93.16 KB |
| Special Report on UNFF2 | 50.22 KB |
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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| OPEN | 141.11 KB |
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.


| Document | Size |
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| More info | 8.25 KB |
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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| OPEN | 73.03 KB |