Publications

NGO Statements

The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

An opportunity to help meet climate and biodiversity objectives

28/05/2021

NGO Statements

Raising the bar: Strengthening EU biodiversity and climate leadership through FLEGT and Forest Partnerships

This statement summarises the views of civil society organisations (CSOs) from Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and West and Central Africa. These organisations help address the key challenges threatening forests around...

27/04/2021

Forest governance, NGO Statements

To benefit people, biodiversity and the climate, EU development programmes must heed local voices

The EU is the world’s largest aid donor and a major political actor with a strong influence over global policies. The EU recognises civil society as an essential actor in policy making and implementation, specifically in the...

14/04/2021

NGO Statements

Stop EU-Mercosur Coalition Statement

We, the undersigned organisations, call on political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to stop the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.

The EU-Mercosur agreement belongs to an out-dated 20th Century model of trade that has failed the...

15/03/2021

NGO Statements

Direct threat to Indigenous territories of Mato Grosso and Brazil

Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020 Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...

26/06/2020

NGO Statements

Fern stands with the Black Lives Matter movement in the struggle for justice

A joint statement from all of us at Fern 

Fern’s vision is a world in which environmental, social and economic justice is fully integrated at all levels. To achieve this, we work with partners to uncover and end the systemic...

03/06/2020

NGO Statements

Open letter from Romanian, European and international NGOs condemning the killing of Romanian forest defenders as illegal logging continues

Following the killing of Liviu Pop, a Romanian forest ranger who was out investigating illegal logging, European civil society organisations wrote to Romania's President Klaus Iohannis.

We call on Romania’s Presidency and...

28/10/2019

Forest governance, NGO Statements

Declaration of Civil Society Organisations from Forested Tropical Countries

In September 2019, environmental and human rights defenders from Africa and Asia came to the EU to sound the alarm over accelerating forest loss  in the Congo Basin and the Lower Mekong regions. Their message was clear, the EU...

11/10/2019

NGO Statements

Fern’s offices are closed today 20 September 2019 in solidarity with the #GlobalStrike4Climate

The Climate Crisis is real and we’re already seeing the effects. Our hotter planet is hurting millions of people, affecting our weather, water, forests, cities, homes, and wildlife.

Since #Fridays4Future started last summer, the...

19/09/2019

NGO Statements

Plea to address EU complicity in the Amazon fires

On August 29, twenty-six NGOs, have sent an open letter to European leaders urging them to end European complicity in the fires raging in the Amazon. 

NGOs believe the EU can act decisively in two ways.    1. Suspend ratification...

29/08/2019