Forest Law and Governance: NGO Statements
Joint NGO letter re: prerequisites for improved forest governance
A letter to the UK treasury, the Department for International Development, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and, the Department for Energy and Climate Change. It outlines NGOs support for the EU FLEGT Programme, including the EU illegal timber regulation, which will become operational next year, and the focus on governance through ‘Voluntary Partnership Agreements’.
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 Letter to DFID.pdf | 118.27 KB |
Briefing on wood related criteria for the EU Ecolabel and green public procurement
Briefing by the European Environmental Bureau, FERN and Greenpeace, looking at wood related criteria for the EU ecolabel and Green Public Procurement.
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| OPEN | 110 KB |
Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru
FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK submission to UNFCCC
Submission by FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK to the UNFCCC SBSTA on indigenous peoples rights and climate. The submission spells out that recognition of forest peoples' rights is pre-condition for a succesful forest - climate agreement
Letter to Commission re Malaysia VPA
Letter from FERN to the European Commission spelling out problems with the existing VPA process in Malaysia. The letter also specifies what needs to be changed for the VPA process to have a real impact on the ground.
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| OPEN | 171.7 KB |
Open letter re Ghana VPA
A letter by FERN and Global Witness to alert the European Commission of a few oustanding issues that need to be resolved before signing a VPA with Ghana would be acceptable to the European NGO community
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| OPEN | 620.12 KB |
Open letter to Malaysian Government by NGOs involved in FLEGT
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 OPEN | 26 KB |
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