Publications

Briefing Notes

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: What is it, and what could it mean for forests and human rights?

In June 2019 the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) announced that they had reached an ‘in principle’ agreement on the content of a bilateral trade agreement which they had been negotiating,...

02/06/2020

Press Releases

Biodiversity strategy: the European Commission lays the path for a greener future in the wake of COVID-19

The launch today of the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy could be a landmark moment for European forests. As well as headline targets to protect land and sea areas, the Strategy foresees binding restoration targets and measures in 2021,...

20/05/2020

Forest governance, Briefing Notes

European Green Deal must strengthen partner countries’ recovery from the COVID-19 crisis

Fern and 15 other NGOs working on climate, environment, human rights and sustainable development issues have released a statement on the EU’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

The statement welcomes EU leadership in supporting...

06/05/2020

Reports

EU Forests of Hope

How community restoration and management of forests can help meet climate goals

01/04/2020

Forest governance, Reports

Forest governance and climate action in the Republic of Congo : Challenges and perspectives

This report, produced in collaboration with Climate Analytics and Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l'Homme (RPDH), demonstrates that only good governance will allow Congo's forests to play a crucial role in the fight...

30/03/2020

Forest governance, Reports

Evaluating the VPA process in the Republic of Congo

Views from civil society

30/03/2020

Reports

Detoxifying palm oil

How European Union policy could remove deforestation and human rights violations from the palm oil trade with Indonesia

26/03/2020

Briefing Notes

The shocking truth about EU forests in numbers

By 2050, the EU forest sink will be halved if current management practices continue.

80% of EU forests with protected status are in an "unfavourable" or "bad" condition.

EU rules only require 36% of all trees burned for...

21/02/2020

Forest governance, Briefing Notes

Making the European Green Deal work for International Partnerships

The European Commission’s Green Deal can help solving the international climate and biodiversity emergencies by shaping stronger and more sustainable partnerships with tropical forested countries. But this will only succeed, if it...

19/02/2020

Reports

Forest management and climate change: a new approach to the french mitigation strategy

This new report challenges whether France’s long-term forest strategy will fight climate change. The report shows the flaws in the French plan to produce heat and electricity from burning wood and offers an alternative vision where forests can play their role in fighting the climate breakdown, become more resilient to future shocks and still providing for timber needs.

03/02/2020