Forest Movement Europe 2007

Held in Spain at an environmental centre in the Castle of Santa Cruz near to the Galician city of Coruña, the meeting was hosted by the university extension centre for the dissemination of environmental information (CEIDA) (www.ceida.org). One day was devoted to a strategy for Galician NGOs, before the FME meeting took place.

The main issues discussed during the meeting included:

• Progress on the European paper campaign
• Preparing for the convention on biological diversity
• Certification and the timber trade
• Illegal logging and the FLEG(T) processes
• Impact of plantations in Galicia, Portugal and Brazil
• Forests and climate change
• Agrofuels/biofuels
• Forest Fires

Presentations given during the meeting are available here: