Forest Law and Governance: EU Forest Watch
FLEGT VPA Update May 2012
Every six months, FERN produces an update looking at the present situation with regards the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, with a specific focus on VPAs. This May 2012 example looks at the six VPAs (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia and the Republic of Congo) that have been finalised; and two (Ghana and Cameroon) that have been ratified. Ratification of the VPAs of Liberia and the Central African Republic is expected soon.
Official VPA negotiations are ongoing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Malaysia and Vietnam. However negotiations have been temporarily suspended in DRC. Three other countries are expected to start official negotiations; Ivory Coast, Honduras and Laos. Countries that have expressed an interest include Thailand, Guyana, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone and Ecuador.
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
 VPA Update May 2012.pdf | 164.45 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 160 and FLEGT Update
- NGOs re-frame the sustainable biomass debate
- Road to ruin: Russian project destroying ancient forest
- Offset credit use rises by two-thirds
- Nuclear Energy: ECAs place a dangerous bet?
- DRC in a FIP-ing hurry
- A band-aid for the EU ETS?
- VPA Update
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| FW 160 May 2011 final.pdf | 230.85 KB |
| VPA Update May 2011.pdf | 148.88 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 153 and FLEGT Update
- An update on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreements
- Binding Forest Agreement: Déjà Vu
- EAP: Seven times a charm?
- www.loggingoff.info relaunched and bilingual
- BITs: The Commission passes the baton?
- LIFE+ goes on?
- Biofuels lawsuits
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| FW 153 October 2010.pdf | 221.52 KB |
| VPA Update October 2010.pdf | 137.67 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 149 May 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
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| FW 149 May 2010.pdf | 182.57 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 146 and FLEGT special
- Copenhagen’s missing ingredients: legal standing and political will
- Sarawak cases, VPA lessons
- Moving goal posts: staunching EU biodiversity loss
- Bulgaria facing EU penalty over forest swaps
- Forest Inaction Plan
- ‘Sustainable’ Biofuels?
- Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT): Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) special
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| VPA update.pdf | 131.26 KB |
| FW 146 February 2010.pdf | 212.96 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 145 and Copenhagen Special
- EU Member States reject prohibition of the sale of illegal timber
- NGOs reject Ecolabel for copying and graphic paper
- Will Europe follow America’s ECAs in reducing GHGs
- Integrated Product Policy and Beyond
- Member States’ support binding biomass criteria
- Copenhagen Update (Available in French and Spanish)
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| FW 145 Jan 2010.pdf | 184.82 KB |
| Copenhagen update.pdf | 124.79 KB |
| Copenhagen update in French.pdf | 189.37 KB |
| Copenhagen update in Spanish.pdf | 132.46 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 144 and update from Barcelona
- Climate, energy and environment change
- A binding forest agreement?
- Biomass: binding sustainability criteria needed
- FERN.org relaunched
- First US illegal timber investigation
- EU ratifies Ghana VPA
- Palm oil funding frozen
- Update from UNFCCC Barcelona meeting
| Document | Size |
|---|---|
| FW 144 December 2009 | 213.17 KB |
| Barcelona update | 118.32 KB |
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