Publications & Insight

NGOs call on EU to scrap bioenergy from Renewable Energy policy

The World Rainforest Movement and BiofuelWatch have called on the EU to scrap bio-energy subsidies, starting with the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive. In their eyes, incentivising large-scale bioenergy production is anything...

15/02/2016

Does EU have plan to tackle its deforestation footprint?

The EU has launched a study to assess how it should tackle its contribution to deforestation. Previous studies showed that between 1990 and 2008, the EU imported 36 per cent of all traded crops associated with deforestation.

This...

15/02/2016

Forest priorities of the Dutch Presidency

The Netherlands holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2016; in that role, the Dutch intend to “focus on the essentials”, promoting growth and creating jobs through innovation and...

15/02/2016

Forests and flood prevention: could the CAP do more?

Recent heavy rain and flooding in communities across Western Europe has prompted increased interest in the role that forests play as natural sponges – and what the EU can do to mitigate the impact of high rainfall.

Recent studies...

15/02/2016

Republic of Congo and CAR sign Joint CAFI Declaration

The Central African Republic (CAR) and the Republic of Congo are the first Congo Basin countries to sign the joint Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) declaration.

Launched in September 2015, CAFI aims to reduce...

15/02/2016

Cameroon excludes forest communities from benefit-sharing

The recent adoption of Cameroon’s 2016 finance law, which defines the annual budget, has once again thwarted the hopes of forest communities. The new law fails to reintroduce the 10 per cent of community forest revenues that had...

15/02/2016

News in brief - February 2016

Well-documented links exist between increased deforestation of an area and the emergence of diseases. Previously, the relationship was established between deforestation and Ebola (FW 196) and, more recently, rising cases of zoonot...

15/02/2016

Forest Watch

EU Forest Watch Issue 212 - February 2016

15/02/2016

Looking back at 200 issues of ForestWatch

To mark Forest Watch’s 200th issue, we asked FERN’s co-founder, Saskia Ozinga, to comment on the road that has been travelled since the first issue in February 1996.

Q: How much has changed since the first ForestWatch (FW) issue?...

15/02/2016

Press Releases

European Commission’s biodiversity offset report shows it is deaf to the concerns of EU citizens

This press release raises concern about a new European Commission report on biodiversity offsetting which was commissioned before the conclusion of the Commission consultation on No Net Loss.

16/01/2016