Publications

Reports

FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements 2.0

A response to the European Commission FLEGT Fitness Check, and options for the future

16/12/2021

Reports

CLIMATE FINANCE - How can it help to protect forests and human rights and improve governance?

Forests are crucial to keeping average global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Their protection and restoration could provide a cost-effective solution for climate mitigation, and adaptation. To meet targets for the Agriculture,...

05/11/2021

Reports

Beyond Commitments

How can NDCs contribute to forest governance and resilient local communities?

31/03/2021

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

Reports

Evaluating the VPA process in the Republic of Congo

Views from civil society

30/03/2020

Reports

How to ensure FLEGT is a success: Make sure we stay the course

This January 2020 Fern and LoggingOff's update on FLEGT VPAs shows the support the process is still receiving from civil society, governments and the private sector. It is written by Civil Society leaders across Africa, Asia and Latin America and shows their enthusiasm for the process despite the multiple challenges. 

20/01/2020

Reports

Deepening and expanding multi-stakeholder participation in VPAs to achieve greater impact

VPA update, June 2019

One of the unique features of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) – which form a key part of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan – is that they allow a variety of actors (government, private sector, civil society and forest communities) to discuss how forests should be managed.

10/07/2019

Reports

Hardening international soft law frameworks into EU measures to address forest-risk commodities

This report provides European policymakers with recommendations for supply-side and demand-side policy measures in order to fulfill the EU’s pledge to tackle global deforestation and forest degradation.

03/12/2018

Reports

A year on from FLEGT licensing - VPA Update, November 2017

LoggingOff and Fern publish occasional Forest Watch updates detailing events in countries negotiating a Voluntary Partnership Agreement from a civil society perspective. In the November 2017 edition, the main article focuses on...

15/11/2017

Reports

Lessons learnt from FLEGT for REDD - Summary

This report explains why ignoring key lessons from initiatives to control illegal logging (such as the EU's Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT) will lead REDD to a dead-end.

It builds on FERN's nearly...

26/05/2011