Publications & Insight

News

Hope is fading for a binding instrument on human rights and transnational corporations

The possibility of a binding instrument to defend human rights against the actions of transnational corporations (TNCs) may be quietly dying on the drawing board at a working group meeting, 15 - 19 October 2018, in Geneva. 

In...

18/10/2018

Films

How to stop trade agreements from damaging forests and peoples' rights

The EU has made strong commitments to mitigate climate change, stop deforestation and respect human rights, including community rights to land. But they are at risk being undermined by trade agreements the EU is currently...

17/10/2018

News

IPCC report discredits the burning of forests: NGOs outline the alternative

From the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) landmark report showing that we have just 12 years to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C, to the devastating heat wave...

17/10/2018

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 239 - October 2018

17/10/2018

Reports

Missing Pathways to 1.5°C: The role of the land sector in ambitious climate action

Climate ambition that safeguards land rights, biodiversity and food

This report examines three overlapping crises: climate change, biodiversity loss and the growing land and other rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples and...

15/10/2018

Briefing Notes

Los caminos que faltan para llegar a 1.5°C : Resumen del informe

Este resumen del informe CLARA analiza cómo el sector del uso de la tierra puede ayudar a una acción climática ambiciosa. Proporciona una respuesta alternativa a la pregunta de cómo podemos...

15/10/2018

NGO Statements

NGO recommendations for a sustainable EU bioeconomy

In 2012, the EU released the Communication, “Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe”, which is now in the process of being updated.

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in using biomass as a...

11/10/2018

Press Releases

Rapid emissions cuts will negate need for BECCS, says IPCC

Fern welcomes apparent shift from relying on dangerous technological solutions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on 1.5 degrees has confirmed that Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is not...

08/10/2018

Blogs

The village women taking on the palm oil giant

20/09/2018

Briefing Notes

Speaking truth to power: The village women taking on the palm oil giant

The Société Financière des Caoutchouc (Socfin) group is among the world’s biggest independent plantation owners, managing 187,000 hectares of mostly oil palm and rubber plantations in Asia and Africa, where it has been operating...

20/09/2018