Publications & Insight

Briefing Notes

Food environments & EU food policy

Discovering the role of food environments in sustainable food systems

01/10/2025

Financing Europe's forest restoration

On 25 September 2025 Fern hosted a webinar for foresters looking at what forest financing is available. This event, moderated by Fern’s forest and climate campaigner, Kelsey Perlman, featured speakers Metodi Sotirov (University of...

26/09/2025

Press Releases

Press release: Delaying the EUDR sends a dreadful signal to the rest of the world

When the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) came into force in June 2023 it was greeted as an historic moment in the fight to protect the world’s endangered forests.  

The law signaled the EU’s resolve to end its complicity in...

24/09/2025

Press Releases

Press release: EU-Indonesia trade agreement will perpetuate social and environmental injustice

Brussels, 23 September, 2025  – Today’s free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia is a win for transnational companies at the expense of forests and vulnerable peoples.  

After nine years of negotiations, Indonesia and...

23/09/2025

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

In Romania, the EUDR is urgently needed to prevent illegal wood harvesting and forest degradation

Fern partners Agent Green and Bruno Manser Fonds stress the importance of ambitious, timely implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation 

In response to the EU Commission’s call for evidence regarding the ‘simplification’ of...

17/09/2025

News, Forest Watch

Deforestation and Nature Restoration Regulations: necessary, yet under threat

In the dead of summer, the Commission launched a number of consultations, many of which targeted environmental legislation, and would empty rules of meaningful requirements. Opposing camps lined up accordingly, flooding the zone. ...

17/09/2025

News, Forest Watch

Is this the end for meaningful forest monitoring?

The turmoil that for the past year has surrounded the EU’s draft legislative text on Forest Monitoring shows no signs of abating.

On 23 September 2025, the ENVI committee will vote on the Forest Monitoring proposal; in early...

17/09/2025

News, Forest Watch

Ghana’s FLEGT licences are here!

It has been a long time coming, but on 18 August 2025 Ghana officially launched its Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licences, the first African nation and only the second EU FLEGT partner country to do so.

Th...

17/09/2025

News, Forest Watch

Forest Watch 308 - September 2025

Europe ablaze as wildfires and policy fires increase

17/09/2025

Reports

Opportunities and obstacles: How to ensure Vietnamese smallholder coffee farmers are ready for the EUDR

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, accounting for approximately 17% of global output and providing livelihoods for over two million rural households. The EU is one of Vietnam’s most important export markets,...

09/09/2025