Publications & Insight

Forest Watch

African communities are protesting against offsetting – but the Commission and UAE still rush to establish an African Carbon Market

Despite everyone’s better judgment, carbon credit games continue – putting community rights in danger as 10 per cent of Liberia is put up for sale.

14/09/2023

NGO Statements

International statement on the carbon deal between Blue Carbon and the Liberian government

Liberia’s Government is threatening to sign away thirty years of rights to more than one million hectares of forests to Blue Carbon, a private company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Blue Carbon claim they will protect...

20/07/2023

Forest Governance 5 - June 2022

Fern’s partners in Ghana, Liberia, the Congo Basin and Brazil share their opposing views on the effect the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

23/06/2022

The EU Regulation: A Liberian CSO perspective

On March 11 this year, Liberian civil society organisations working on land and forest governance took part in a one day forum organised by Sustainable Development Institutre (SDI) Liberia and Foundation for Community Initiatives...

23/06/2022

Monrovia Calling

In recent years, Fern has supported journalists in forested countries to report on critical issues facing their nations’ forests. A remarkable investigative journalism project in Liberia is continuing that tradition.

05/05/2022

Forest Governance 3 - April 2021

FLEGT-VPAs: Worth fighting for

22/04/2021

News

Liberia’s FLEGT process: EU to take away the “one glimmer of hope”?

The EU seems to be considering rewarding Liberia’s administrative foot-dragging by abandoning FLEGT – communities and CSOs fear the pillage of Liberia’s remaining forests.

22/04/2021

Beyond commitments: How can Nationally Determined Contributions contribute to forest governance and resilient local communities?

In 2018, Fern and our partners revealed that many African states’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) pledges were not considering the need to improve forest governance. As countries are now preparing and communicating new...

22/12/2020

News, Events

Webinars on the EU and UK consultations on Regulatory Proposals to Halt Deforestation

Highlights of the webinar:The webinars in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish (click on the links for the slides) were attended by over 100 participants, including civil society from producer countries, as well as...

28/09/2020

Blogs

Liberia and COVID: Reliable information needed

NGOs struggle to raise awareness in communities, and then struggle to get the information they need to be effective.

23/07/2020