Publications & Insight

Forest governance, 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

Forest governance, 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

Forest governance, 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

Forest governance, Blogs

This Land is Ours

Alexandra Benjamin interviews Liberian women struggling for their land rights, and examines the law that could finally help bring them justice.

24/09/2019

Forest governance, Blogs

Forest Crimes in Antwerp

24/09/2019

Forest governance

Our Forests Our Lives

Stories of hope and resilience from forest communities around the world

24/09/2019

Forest governance, Blogs

The Forest is our Life

Guyana’s forests have sustained people for generations. Gaulbert Sutherland travelled deep into the country’s hinterland to hear of the pressures that locals face, and their hopes for change.

24/09/2019

Blogs

As the Amazon burns and global deforestation accelerates, only unified international action can save the world’s forests

Tropical forests are likely to grab headlines today when Jair Bolsonaro addresses the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York.

In early September, just before a hernia operation, Brazil’s President told reporters, “I will...

24/09/2019

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

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 248 - September 2019

Commission Communication opens door to regulation of products that destroy forests, but proposed Mercosur trade deal throws fuel on the Amazon fires

18/09/2019