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ForestWatch Issue 183 June 2013

  • Money-laundering update: time for action
  • G8 prioritises multinationals over smallholders?
  • Worrisome reliance on biomass
  • CAR: Legal timber from an illegitimate state? 
  • INTA adopts helpful ECA recommendations 
  • What next for UK Forests and Climate funds?
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FW 183 June 2013 new.pdf364 KB

FLEGT VPA Update May 2013

Every six months, FERN produces an update looking at the present situation with regards the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, with a specific focus on Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs). This May 2013 example looks at VPAs in Africa, Asia and South and Central America.

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VPA Update May 2013.pdf163.94 KB

ForestWatch Issue 182 April 2013

  • Moving extractive industries closer to transparency
  • Shadow forces ranged against VPAs
  • 7EAP: Council’s opportunity to be effective
  • CITES creates loopholes in the EU Timber Regulation
  • Complaint of human rights violations in DRC
  • Airport challenged due to poor biodiversity offsetting
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FW 182 May 2013.pdf359.58 KB
VPA Update May 2013.pdf163.94 KB

ForestWatch Issue 181 April 2013

  • UNCERD calls on Cameroon to respect international law
  • Challenging times for VPAs in Gabon and CAR
  • FERN’s new blog: critical carbon trading news
  • Parliament and Council adopt Decision on LULUCF accounting rules
  • China’s Impact on Africa
  • Arguing over RED targets
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FW 181 April 2013.pdf349.25 KB

ForestWatch Issue 180 March 2013

  • Importing illegally sourced timber is, finally, illegal
  • Take the EU ETS off life support 
  • Dear Commission, Re: Biomass – Have we missed again?
  • EU: ‘Banking’ Nature
  • APP, a world leader?
  • REDD+ Update
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FW 180 Mars 2013.pdf343.38 KB

Forest Watch Update on REDD+ in the Congo Basin

Following on from FERN's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) updates. This is the first of FERN's six monthly updates on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) for five countries in the Congo Basin: the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Gabon. It shows that although REDD+ processes are ongoing in four of the five countries, they are not inclusive, and are led in a top-down manner.

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REDD update.pdf206.49 KB

ForestWatch Issue 179 February 2013

  • Liberia’s draft land policy - on the way to a community owned Liberia?
  • How sustainable is Scandinavian biomass?
  • EU leading efforts to improve forest governance
  • Carbon trade fraud likely to continue
  • Guyana VPA negotiations underway
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FW 179 February 2013.pdf300.92 KB

Doha climate talks: ForestWatch special issue

The 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP18) was held in Doha, Qatar against a backdrop of high profile reports warning that the world is heading for between 4 and 6°C of warming. The Doha outcome continues low levels of ambition to mitigate climate change from developed countries, and fails to deliver on critically needed climate finance for adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. Worse still, the Doha outcome advances discussions on offsetting through trading carbon, strongly opposed by many developing countries and NGOs. As REDD+ negotiations look set to continue in the direction of establishing forest carbon trading, from 2013 FERN will focus efforts on forest governance reforms in forested countries and will no longer follow the UNFCCC negotiations. 

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Doha update.pdf162.72 KB

ForestWatch Issue 178 January 2013

  • Positive news in Liberia: Abuse not allowed to stand
  • New World Bank report: REDD is meaningless in a world 4°C warmer
  • To Liberia, with concern
  • Putting smallholders first
  • Lao Civil Society Organisations worried
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FW 178 January 2013.pdf311.14 KB

ForestWatch Issue 177 December 2012

  • COP 18: To save or not to save the forests
  • Cameroon: Thwarting the VPA’s promise ...
  • ... Yet taking a step forward
  • Seventh EAP: Intended to address the EU footprint?
  • Sweden: Are you sure? 
  • APPG tells UKEF to behave
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FW 177 December 2012.pdf302.72 KB

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