This Guide explains why it is important for NGOs to get involved in the development of Rural Development Strategies and Programmes. It details steps to take to influence rural development funding so that it contributes to...
13/12/2005
Under the guise of an initiative to promote sustainable energy technologies, governments are about to grant subsidised export credits for hydropower projects.This report looks at the experience over the last ten years with dams...
02/09/2005
Footprints in the Forests assesses eight certification schemes and different certification trends. It is a revision of FERN's Behind the Logo Report.
01/08/2005
FERN, Greenpeace and WWF report on the 7 April 2005 conference on illegal logging and related trade. The conference, The 2005 Joint NGO conference on illegal logging, governance and trade, was a resounding success, with delegates...
29/07/2005
FERN and Telapak outline the possibilities and limitations of the FLEGT Support Project - an EC-funded project aimed at tackling illegal logging and promoting the role of forests within Indonesia's sustainable development
12/07/2005
FERN explains the myth of carbon 'offset' in a special briefing.
05/07/2005
Briefing focusing on the interdependence between forests and human health and reflects these concerns in the policies, programmes and projects of the EU.
04/07/2005
Report comparing policies in nine EU countries plus USA, and examining likely impact of revised EU procurement directives.
01/07/2005
As in previous year our work centred on five campaign areas: Climate Change; Forests
and Biodiversity; Trade and Investment; Forest Peoples’ Rights and Development Aid.
Within these five areas we carried out the following campaigns in 2005: Export Credit Agencies, Illegal logging, Forest certification (including timber procurement, Climate change, EC development aid, United Nations forum on forests and European forests.
20/06/2005
FERN, Greenpeace and WWF's joint briefing highlighting minimum requirements governments should include in the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) partnership agreements with producer countries to control illegal...
01/01/2005
