Publications & Insight

News

NGOs are concerned that EU anti-deforestation regulation would largely fail to address deforestation in Brazil

A group of NGOs shared their concerns about the upcoming EU legislation on forest and other ecosystem-risk commodities. If the regulation leaves out key high-risk cattle products, such as processed beef and hides, and excludes the...

28/10/2021

Briefing Notes

The Rights Path to Restoration

The world needs a great global forest restoration. But for that to work climatically, socially or ecologically it also needs a global restoration of land rights for forest dwellers. By Fred Pearce.

28/10/2021

Events

How the EU, UK and US deforestation laws will impact Brazil

COP26 side event

27/10/2021

Reports

A Just Transition

Conversations with foresters on the drawbacks of intensive forestry and the solutions offered by close-to-nature practices

27/10/2021

Forest governance

Forest Governance 4 - October 2021

To preserve the Congo Basin rainforest and reduce carbon emissions, CSOs need continued oversight

26/10/2021

Forest governance

Cameroon’s forests can be saved – but only with the support of local communities and environmental activists

Lush, tropical forests cover approximately 40 per cent of Cameroon, yet since 1990, more than three million hectares have been cleared – an area approximately the size of Belgium. The destruction is driven by agriculture, logging...

25/10/2021

Forest governance

Independent forest monitoring in Congo: A governance tool at risk?

In the Republic of the Congo (RoC), the forestry sector continues to face governance challenges. Authorities often struggle to enforce laws and sanction illegal logging practices, and corruption remains omnipresent. Civil society...

25/10/2021

Forest governance

CAR: Independent Forest Monitors are making a comeback

The political instability that still confronts the Central African Republic undermines the protection and inclusive management of its forests. Almost non-existent government control and increases in chaotic logging threaten the...

25/10/2021

NGOs support a Forest Strategy that addresses current challenges for forests

Forests are the bedrock of nature, our climate, and the European quality of life and way of life. Europe has a diversity of forests, but the challenges they face go beyond borders and require a new approach, encapsulated in the...

22/10/2021

Forest governance, NGO Statements

NGOs are alarmed at the EU for possibly abandoning the fight against illegal logging and failing forested countries

This letter was sent to Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.We are a group of environmental and human rights NGOs that work to advance forest governance and forest peoples’ rights globally. We are writing to...

15/10/2021