Publications & Insight

News

UN Climate Action Summit: Every silver lining has a raincloud

The Climate Action Summit had a host of upsides. Most came with a downside.

11/10/2019

News

NGOs submit complaint regarding long-term destructive logging in Romania

Logging occurs far beyond what is permitted or reported, even within Natura 2000 sites.

11/10/2019

News

The ‘Greenest’ Commission that Europe has ever seen?

How do the Commissioners-designate plan to protect forests and people and halt deforestation, both within and outside the EU? Fern follows the hearings.

11/10/2019

News

The EU at the UN Climate Action Summit: Finally getting somewhere?

The Climate Action Summit may have disappointed, but the new EU Commission First Vice-President is off to a positive start.

11/10/2019

Blogs

California Public Agency Endorses Controversial Forest Carbon-Trading Standard

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted a repackaged, unproven standard for California. But its impact might not stop there.

11/10/2019

News

Civil society from emerging nations share their views on forests in danger and EU policies

NGO leaders from tropical forested nations offer first-hand accounts on what is needed for effective forest protection.

11/10/2019

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

Events

NDCs and Forests - Taking Stock and Moving Ahead

2019 is a critical year for climate ambition and revisions of National Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Coordination SUD and Fern has hosted a multi-stakeholder dialogue on NDCs and Forests: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead, on 1...

04/10/2019

Briefing Notes

A Green New Deal for Forests

Ursula von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, has promised to deliver a European Green Deal in her first 100 days in office. For such a deal to truly tackle the challenges of climate change, it will need to ensure healthy growing forests inside and outside of Europe that are good for people, our climate and nature.

25/09/2019

Blogs

Our Forests Our Lives

From the Liberian women fighting for the right to own and govern land that’s rightfully theirs, to the Guyanese Indigenous Peoples resisting companies attempting to seize their forests these stories come from different parts of the globe, but are bound by a common thread. 

24/09/2019