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EU Forest Watch
January 23, 2012
  • A Green Economy in 2012?
  • Liberian PUPs sidestep VPA reform
  • Durban’s COP17: Fiddling as Rome burns
  • New study: Biofuels behind many land grabs
  • Where biomass meets illegal logging
  • Durban aimed to save the market, not the climate
Briefing note
January 18, 2012

This briefing provides an overview of the publicly documented involvement of the European Investment Bank (EIB) is support of failing carbon markets. It is based on a report by the organisations Counter Balance and Campagna per la riforma della banca mondiale (CRBM). The original report is available here.

EU Forest Watch
December 19, 2011
  • DRC: Secret mineral deals thwart transparency goals
  • Of APP and Ecolabels
  • Trees in England and Wales: Up in smoke
  • APP lawyers pressure FERN to remove publication
  • Unlikely + unlikely + minuscule = carbon trading’s contribution to SFM and forest communities
  • Durban: We missed again
NGO Statements
December 13, 2011

File 5889In 2006 the EU Ecolabel was awarded to two brands of photocopy paper – Golden Plus and Lucky Boss – produced by the Indonesian company Pindo Deli, a subsidiary of APP. In 2010, FERN published “EU Ecolabel allows forest destruction – the case of Pindo Deli,” questioning how the Ecolabel could be awarded to paper from a company such as Pindo Deli.

Recommended reading
December 13, 2011

On 21 November 2011, FERN was sent the attached letter from APP's lawyers. We will not be removing the report 'EU Ecolabel allows forest destruction - the case of Pindo Deli' from our site as we stand by the information in that document and the conclusion the EU Ecolabel needs to improve its transparency.

Press Releases
December 8, 2011

Recent collapses in carbon markets and widespread opposition from forest peoples and non-governmental organisations have not stopped governments gathered in Durban from trying to build momentum for the creation of a new forest carbon market as part of the response to deforestation and climate change. In thie press release, the Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change, a coalition of around 100 civil society and indigenous peoples organisations from 38 countries, calls on governments in Durban to reject forest carbon trading.