Publications & Insight

Forest governance, Briefing Notes

Forests play a key role in tackling climate change

This briefing note from Coordination SUD and Fern analyses the issues we need to address to ensure forests help deliver tropical forested countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This includes respect for communities’ rights and preserving their livelihoods, protecting and restoring biodiversity, and improved forest governance. Tackling these challenges will require effective civil society participation.

20/01/2020

Blogs

25 years of building alliances to save the forests

Scot Quaranda of Dogwood Alliance chronicles how Fern has protected forests and peoples’ rights from the heart of Europe for 25 years.

06/01/2020

Blogs

Five EU forest trends to watch out for in 2020

In 2019, forests and forest peoples’ rights rose up the global political – and spiritual - agenda, and the EU made high profile commitments to protect forests abroad and at home as part of their European Green Deal. But will 2020 see such commitments turned into action? Here are five questions we hope to give positive answers to at the end of the year.

05/01/2020

Press Releases

EU member states support EU regulatory measures to tackle deforestation

Brussels – December 16: EU Member States have just released their official reaction to the Commission’s Communication on stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests. They “request” the Commission to...

16/12/2019

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 251 - December 2019

European Green Deal offers hope for the future of forests

12/12/2019

Forest governance, Blogs

Ending corruption, improving forest governance: why it matters

Fern campaigner, Marie Ange Kalenga was invited to produce a blog for Transparency International’s 20th anniversary. Beyond obvious criminal implications, corruption is an assault on people, forests and the environment. It can be stopped.

11/12/2019

News

European Green Deal offers hope for the future of forests

On December 11, the European Commission, now headed by former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen, published its long awaited proposal for a European Green Deal. 

It contains two standalone forest initiatives as well as...

11/12/2019

Blogs

Estonian Forest NGOs under pressure after challenging government forestry decision

Estonian environmental NGOs have had enough of being outgunned as they stand up to a mighty timber industry and some of its powerful government friends. In November 2019, several environmental NGOs sent a letter to the Minister of...

11/12/2019

News

New research shows harvesting increases are damaging forests

We are already missing our forest-health targets, climate action needs to protect our forests, not endanger them.

11/12/2019

Press Releases

Green Deal could be a springboard for ambitious forest action

Brussels, December 11 – The European Commission’s proposed Green Deal contains two standalone forest initiatives, indicating that EU politicians understand how close forests are to Europeans’ hearts. But poor implementation could...

11/12/2019