Publications & Insight

Blogs

Von der Leyen’s first 100 days: Are our forests and the climate in good hands?

Fern’s Campaigns Coordinator Hannah Mowat examines whether the European Commission’s new President is on course to fulfil her promises.

09/03/2020

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 253 - March 2020

Forests and 100 days of von der Leyen, International Women's Day, the EU Biodiversity Strategy and more...

09/03/2020

News

Worse than expected: Fears surround Indonesia’s draft job creation law

Indonesia has launched a new legal package that includes extreme attacks on Indigenous rights and environmental protections. The EU must respond.

09/03/2020

Forest governance, News

EU budget hits a wall, but the climate and biodiversity emergency cannot wait!

EU leaders’ failure to agree an EU budget puts environmental action at risk. The EU should back their pledges with financial capacity.

09/03/2020

News

What the EU Biodiversity Strategy and Climate Law mean for European forests

The draft Biodiversity Strategy includes positive elements that campaigners hope will not vanish by the final vote.

09/03/2020

Blogs

Integrating women’s rights into forest protection is non-negotiable

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Fern interviewed our newest Board member Korto Reeves Williams, who is renowned for her work advancing women’s rights and tackling gender inequality.

06/03/2020

Forest governance, Blogs

Pitfalls and Promises of Congo's New Forest Eldorado

Logging and conservation projects have spurred rapid development in the Sangha forest region of the Congo. But what’s the human and environmental cost? Laudes Martial Mbon travels to the depths of the Congo Basin rainforest to investigate.

04/03/2020

News

EU: Undermining development aid by backing landgrabbers?

Concerns have been raised in the European Parliament that the EU development aid budget is financing harmful private sector investments. During Parliamentary Questions in Brussels on 31 March 2015, MEP Roberta Metsola (of Malta)...

29/02/2020

Briefing Notes

The shocking truth about EU forests in numbers

By 2050, the EU forest sink will be halved if current management practices continue.

80% of EU forests with protected status are in an "unfavourable" or "bad" condition.

EU rules only require 36% of all trees burned for...

21/02/2020

Forest governance, Briefing Notes

Making the European Green Deal work for International Partnerships

The European Commission’s Green Deal can help solving the international climate and biodiversity emergencies by shaping stronger and more sustainable partnerships with tropical forested countries. But this will only succeed, if it...

19/02/2020