In 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.
The EU Forestry Strategy, adopted in 1998, acted as a response to concerns about the lack of coherence and coordination between national forest policies and other forest related EU policies. Though the non-legally binding Forestry Strategy represents the first significant attempt to create an EU-wide framework for forests, its development and implementation left much to be desired.
This submission to the "EU Emissions Trading System: New Inquiry" shows that fundamental flaws in the design of the EU ETS have been exposed by (a) a series of fraud and cybercrime incidents; (b) the excessive use of carbon offsets by companies hoarding higher-value EU ETS permits received free of charge; and (c) the lack of a functioning regulatory possibility to adjust thesupply of EU ETS emission permits to a sharp economic downturn, and theresulting drop in emissions far below projected levels that were used to calculate permit allocation.
In a position paper presented to the FSC General Assembly in 2008, FERN and other FSC members from the environmental and economic chamber highlighted the changes necessary for the FSC to regain and retain its credibility. In 2009, FERN followed this up with a statement outlining that as a member of FSC, challenges to FSC’s credibility had a negative effect on FERN’s own credibility. The statement identified three courses of action that would lead to FERN terminating its FSC membership.
Joint letter from Global Witness, FERN, Friends of the Earth US, Greenpeace, Bank Information Center, Rainforest Foundation Norway and Rainforest foundation UK to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about their new Carbon Fund.
The informal network for sustainable development in public procurement, a network of trade unions, social and sustainable development organisations, have submitted a common response to the green paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy.
A letter to the UK treasury, the Department for International Development, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and, the Department for Energy and Climate Change. It outlines NGOs support for the EU FLEGT Programme, including the EU illegal timber regulation, which will become operational next year, and the focus on governance through ‘Voluntary Partnership Agreements’.
This submission concludes that the EU ETS and the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon trading schemes have been designed to fail: they assume the contribution of carbon permits and offset credits to limiting greenhouse gas emissions to a verifiable target to be the same, when in reality they are not because calculation of offsets depends on unverifiable hypothetical baselines from which offset volumes are calculated.
FERN’s input into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and interagency working group’s forthcoming study on the oversight of existing and prospective carbon markets. It concludes that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon trading schemes have been designed to fail and that it is difficult to see how subsequent regulation could remedy a situation where the challenge is not to remedy design flaws but where the design is the flaw.
A call from civil society organisations for a democratic, transparent and participatory process at the UN climate talks, leading to balanced, equitable and science-based outcomes in Cancun to implement the UN Climate Convention and the legally binding commitments of developed countries to reduce their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
In 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.
