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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

Environmental tools in EC Development Cooperation

October 1, 2009

This report follows on from the 2007 FERN, BirdLife and WWF report ‘Transparency and availability of EC aid documentation | a review’. It provides an analysis of 21 geographically-diverse country and regional environmental profiles in order to assess the quality and value of the information they provide.

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

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
     

Forestwatch Issue 134

January 9, 2009
  • Wood criteria threaten green procurement
  • Civil society gagged
  • Forest offsets remain excluded from ETS – for now
  • Ilisu Dam: not dead yet
  • EU biodiversity goals: Failure in progress
  • FERN/Forest Peoples Programme Poznan Special

Forestwatch Issue 132

November 19, 2008
  • FSC must improve its performance
  • Biofuel bonus
  • Council prepares for Poznan
  • ASEAN inches toward human rights organ
  • Clearer guidelines for Natura 2000

Forestwatch Issue 130

September 24, 2008
  • Accra climate forests discussions yield few results
  • Cautious optimism at Ghana VPA launch
  • Proposal to control illegal timber postponed again
  • Ongoing struggles in Liberia
  • The true cost of monoculture tree plantations

Forestwatch Issue 129

July 23, 2008
  • Congo VPA process launched
  • Forest funding questioned
  • MEPs vote for reduced agrofuel target
  • Is EC aid ready to fulfil its sustainability target?
  • US bans illegal timber

Seeing RED; avoided deforestation and rights issues

December 8, 2007
This briefing explains why the UNFCC Conference in Bali (December 2007) needs to answer certain important questions related to forest governance and forest peoples' rights before negotiating a post-2012 climate agreement that may include forests.

Still waiting for the benefits

December 4, 2007

Establishing good relations between wildlife resources in the reserve and the local and indigenous communities living in and around the reserve is the most important element to be considered in subsequent phases of the ECOFAC programme. This report puts forward recommendations for how this can be achieved.