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Forestwatch issue 141

October 4, 2009
  • Obstacles on the road to sustainable bioenergy criteria
  • Climate haggling... to be continued
  • UK timber procurement: Help shape criteria
  • The Saami Council applauds breakthrough
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OPEN179.99 KB

Forestwatch issue 140

July 15, 2009
  • Ilisu dam: teetering at the edge
  • Liberia’s dubious timber concessions
  • UK Environmental Audit Committee heeded
  • EU aid: must do better
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FW 140.pdf176.55 KB
Bonn II meeting update.pdf131.11 KB

Forest Watch Issue 138

May 23, 2009
  • Billions of Euros available for afforestation
  • Forest activists win prize
  • Recession+ETS=few carbon reductions in the EU
  • Adapting to climate change?
  • Republic of Congo to sign a VPA with the EU
  • Special report from the UNFCCC forest climate meeting in Bonn
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FW 138.pdf259.51 KB

Forest watch Issue 137

April 1, 2009
  • Fossil Fools day 2009 targets the G20
  • India: The hidden costs of free trade
  • Natura 2000 and CEPF
  • Urging recognition of forest peoples’ rights
  • Liberia negotiations begin
  • EU calendar online
  • FERN moves to Mundo-B
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FW 137.pdf246.89 KB

Forestwatch Issue 136

March 10, 2009
  • Forests in EU-China bilateral agreements
  • Liberia received praise where due
  • Closer eye on EU finance?
  • EU illegal timber proposal strengthened
  • Climate Package disappoints
  • DG ENV boss shuns offsets
  • Reducing emissions or playing with numbers?
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FW 136.pdf243.52 KB
Playing with numbers.pdf112.95 KB

Forestwatch Issue 135

February 6, 2009
  • DRC: ninety-one logging contracts cancelled
  • Communication acknowledges failings of the CDM
  • Diluting the Renewable Energy Directive’s benefits
  • The trouble with market schemes: A US example
     
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OPEN268.4 KB
FLEGT Update124.19 KB

Forestwatch Issue 134

January 9, 2009
  • Wood criteria threaten green procurement
  • Civil society gagged
  • Forest offsets remain excluded from ETS – for now
  • Ilisu Dam: not dead yet
  • EU biodiversity goals: Failure in progress
  • FERN/Forest Peoples Programme Poznan Special
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PDF164.41 KB
Poznan special127.72 KB

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July 3, 2012

This joint NGO letter to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility raises concerns that the bank is undermining its own objectives.

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Carbon Fund sign-on letter -June 2012-1.pdf182.2 KB

Precedent-Setting Insurance for REDD Project in Cambodia Raises Concerns

June 26, 2012

This paper discusses the world’s first-ever political risk insurance policy for a forest carbon offset project, provided by the U.S. Government’s development finance agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). This project aims to protect 64,318 hectares of forests in Oddar Meanchey Province, in Northwest Cambodia. The paper presents the concept of OPIC's political risk insurance and describes the agency’s past and current developmental and environmental financing practices.

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New Market Mechanisms - risks and reality

May 25, 2012

This analysis by civil society looks at state of UN climate negotiations in May 2012. It recommends that a planned workshop on new market mechanisms should focus first on lessons from the clean development mechanism. Scaling up a failed mechanism will not work for the climate. It is signed onto by FERN, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the Institute for Policy Studies and Third World Network.

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NMM-Assessment_Bonn-12-Version_SignOn1.pdf124.98 KB

Carbon Market Mechanisms tried and failed, but UN tries again

May 23, 2012

Released at UN talks on climate change in Bonn, Germany, this press release warns of the risks of extending expensive 'market mechanisms' that have not produced significant emission reductions to date. Three experts spoke at a press conference that preceded a workshop between governments on a "new market mechanism". They highlighted the problems with existing carbon-trading systems, and warned of the risks of extending such mechanisms to whole sectors, forests and agriculture.

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Carbon Market Mechanisms Tried and failed but UN tries again.pdf37.03 KB

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