FME 2005

Held in Brussels and hosted by FERN, the 2005 FME coincided with FERN’s 10th anniversary. As well as the usual meeting FERN and Futurart Gallery hosted an art exhibition on forests. A whole day was devoted to paper. Other main issues discussed at the FME meeting included:

• A workshop on how to lobby effectively at EU level
• Logging, bushmeat and Indigenous Peoples
• Illegal logging and governance
• Timber Procurement Policies
• Carbon sinks and carbon trading
• Specific country situations including Burma, Congo and Ghana
• The financers of Forest Destruction
• Soya and palm oil production and its impact on forests
• International Forest Policies, focusing on UNFF
• Forest certification schemes
• WWF Producer groups