Forest Law and Governance: Press Releases
New analysis shows the EU leading efforts to improve forest governance
This press release released to coincide with the launch of FERN's report Improving forest governance: A comparison on FLEGT VPAs and their impact concludes that we must learn from the VPAs and build on what works,the next step is to research the extent to which the VPA model can be used for other commodities and in other sectors.
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 VPA comparisson PR.pdf | 77.93 KB |
EU trade agreements “might finally tame the destroyers of the world’s forests”
Released on the same day as FERN's high-level conference at the European Parliament "Guardians of the Forest?" (www.fern.org/forestguardians) this press release accompanies the report, ‘Forest Stands’, (www.fern.org/foreststands) by award winning journalist Fred Pearce. It shows that trade agreements founded in concerns for justice and poverty could become a ‘revolution in the rainforest’. The report looks at the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) programme and specifically the Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) between the EU and timber producing countries. It calls VPAs a ‘template for ensuring civil society engagement and changing the balance of power’.
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| EU trade agreements tame forests.pdf | 116.07 KB |
Liberia and EU sign bilateral trade agreement to stop illegal logging
A press release from FERN and SDI Liberia tied to the signing of the EU-Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement. Both FERN and SDI believe this to be a positive step forward and another sign of the importance of the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade action plan.
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| Liberia VPA press release.pdf | 308.27 KB |
Hope that signed Cameroon-EU VPA will begin an end to illegal logging
6 May 2010, saw representatives from Cameroon and the EU conclude a trade agreement that aims to ensure Cameroonian timber is legal when sold on the domestic market or exported to the EU and other countries.
This press release gives the view of civil society, concluding that steps have been made in the right direction thanks to a strong, inclusive consultation process by both the Cameroonian government and the European Commission. However, success in terms of forests will only come through strong implementation.
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| Final Press release Cameroon-EU.pdf | 72.7 KB |
Liberian NGO coalition asks for participatory process
A press release by the Liberian NGO coalition expressing support for the start of VPA negotiations between the EU and the Government of Liberia as part of the EU FLEGT programme. Concern has been raised, however, over the fact that NGOs seem to have been misled about the timing of the launch and hence could not be present
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Open letter to Comission President Barroso to act to control use and imports of illegal timber
In an open letter to Commission President Barroso, FERN, Greenpeace, FoE, WWF and Global Witness express their concern that a legislative proposal to control the import and use of illegal timber, as part of the EU FLEGT Programme, has been postponed again.
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| OPEN | 254.99 KB |
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This report from Robert Lawrence Nyahn of Save my Future Foundation Liberia finds that if the motivation for issuing concessions for multinational corporations is to lift ordinary Liberian citizens out of poverty, then it has become evident that the 
Ten years since the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Action Plan was launched, and one month before the introduction of the EU Timber Regulation which makes it a criminal offence to put illegally sourced timber on the EU market, new research by FERN has shown strong Subscribe to our newsletters
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