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An evaluation of the 2003 Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan is ongoing, with a view to its possible revision. A website including an online survey has been set up to offer all stakeholders the...
23/03/2016
As the European Commission begins work on issues to be addressed in its 2016 work programme, pressure is building for EU action to rein in EU consumption of agricultural products grown on deforested land. A number of EU Member...
The European Timber Regulation (EUTR) remains a “highly relevant” tool in the fight against the trade in illegal timber and has the “potential to achieve its objectives”, according to a report commissioned by the European...
15/03/2016
After the majority of the world’s countries signed a global agreement to hold the increase in global temperatures to well below 2 degrees, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has made a proposal to achieve Carbon...
Indonesia still hopes to become the first country in the world to export timber to the EU under a FLEGT (Forest, Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) licence, demonstrating that its timber is legal.
Indonesia’s government had...
The rights of forest communities in the Republic of Congo continue to be violated with impunity, a recent report by the Organisation Congolaise des Droits de l’Homme (OCDH) has concluded.
These violations are happening despite...
The European Parliament hosted an event organised by Fern on 16 February on how best to tackle land use and forests in the EU’s climate and energy package.
Panellists from the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC),...
A new report by Greenpeace has shown how Socfin (Société Financière des Caoutchoucs), a leading palm oil plantation company working in Africa for decades, threatens forests, community livelihoods, unique ecosystems, and efforts to...
A group of more than 50 international organisations have written to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández to demand an independent international investigation into the murder on 3 March of the environmental and indigenous...
Despite increasing in surface area, European forests store less carbon than they did 250 years ago, leaving a carbon debt of 3.1 petagrams of carbon (11.4 billion tonnes of CO2), a recently published article in Science Magazine cl...
