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Forestwatch Issue 145 and Copenhagen Special

January 15, 2010
  • 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)
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FW 145 Jan 2010.pdf184.82 KB
Copenhagen update.pdf124.79 KB
Copenhagen update in French.pdf189.37 KB
Copenhagen update in Spanish.pdf132.46 KB

Forest Watch issue 142

October 25, 2009
  • G-20 Pittsburgh statement hopeful but clarity needed
  • Liberia’s choice
  • Malaysian déjà vu should suspend VPA process
  • Protesting Monoculture Tree Plantations
     
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FW 142 Oct 2009.pdf196.7 KB

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 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

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Member State compliance with Article 21 of the Lisbon Treaty

September 6, 2012

On 6 August 2012, ECA Watch and the European Coalition for Corporate Justice sent a letter to the President of the Commission Jose Manuel Barroso requesting a meeting to discuss how the Commission intends to monitor Member State compliance with Article 21 of the Lisbon Treaty and how NGOs can be involved in the elaboration of an appropriate compliance framework

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ECA Watch_ECCJ_letter_Commissioner_08_2012.pdf199.22 KB

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) default on its obligations to Export Credit Agencies

June 11, 2012

Press release launched on the day that more than 30 European non governmental organisations (NGOs)  delivered a letter calling on governments not to fund a new pulp mill proposed by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's most controversial pulp and paper companies. The plant is planned to be build in Sumatra, Indonesia where APP is estimated to have already pulped more than two million hectares of natural rainforests.

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APP defaults with ECAs.pdf943.83 KB
MEDIA RELEASE Europe Must Stop Funding Forest Destruction.pdf114.42 KB

Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen export loan scrutiny

June 29, 2011

A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European Parliament’s proposal to make national export credit agencies (ECAs) more accountable for the support they give companies doing business around the world. The three organisations believe this move will increase transparency and human rights compliance and  hope that this will trigger more ambitious reforms in EU capitals, leading to a general reform in global ECA standards.

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ECAs Press Release 290611-1.pdf23.09 KB

Financing nuclear times

June 7, 2011

This newspaper style publication is available in hard copy from info@fern.org. It outlines the history of Export Credit Agencies' support for the nuclear industry and concludes by detailing the destructive projects still in the pipeline.

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financing nuclear times_web version.pdf5.8 MB

Export Credit Agencies’ funding of disastrous nuclear projects put in the spotlight at G20 meeting

June 7, 2011

A press release launched on  the opening day of a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency. It explains how Export Credit Agency (ECA) support for the nuclear industry has increased the burden on indebted nations, fuelled the India, Pakistan arms race and continues to prop up a non financially viable industry. 

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funding nuclear times.pdf162.51 KB

European Parliament demands that Export Credit Agencies open up

April 6, 2011

This press release by ECA-Watch outlines the importance of the European Parliament’s adoption of a proposal to regulate Export Credit Agencies (ECAs). This move will make ECAs more transparent on where their funds come from and go to, as well as how they charge for social and environmental risks. Furthermore, the Parliament requires ECAs to comply with EU human rights objectives in their activities, and to phase out the subsidising of fossil fuel projects in line with commitments adopted by the G20 in 2009.

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press release export credit legislation.pdf489.43 KB

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