Notas informativas

REDD+ y los mercados de carbono: Impugnación de diez mitos

Durante los últimos cuatro años, las negociaciones de las Naciones Unidas en torno al programa de reducción de las emisiones derivadas de la deforestación y la degradación forestal (REDD+) ha ido ganando importancia hasta...

04/11/2011

Strategies to Prevent Illegal Logging

This article was written by Saskia Ozinga and Hannah Mowat for the second edition of "A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy." It compares the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT),...

27/10/2011

Reports

An end to forest offsets

This manual was put together by the partners of the Grundtvig Learning Partnership “Forests and climate protection – merging topics in environmental education”. It provides background information for developing new approaches in...

24/10/2011

NGO statements

FERN position paper: The new Forest Strategy

The EU Forestry Strategy adopted in 1998, acted as a response to concerns about the lack of coherence and coordination between national forest policies and other forest related EU policies. Though the non-legally binding Forestry...

01/10/2011

Reports

Flows of biomass to and from the EU

This new report shows that the quantity of wood required to satisfy the European Union’s 20-20-20 target is likely to be too large to be met by increased production within the EU. Member States will have to rely on importing wood...

14/09/2011

Briefing notes

Central America’s first VPA? Perspectives on FLEGT in Honduras

In early April 2011, and following some initial contacts between Honduras and the European Union (EU) in mid-2010, a series of meetings and workshops were held in Honduras with the objective to explore the potential negotiation of...

26/07/2011

Reports

Forest Governance and the Voluntary Partnership Agreement: Deepening forest sector reform in Liberia

On 9 May 2011 the government of Liberia and the European Union (EU) signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. The aim of the agreement is to improve forest governance by tackling the problem...

14/07/2011

Reports

¿Diseñado para fracasar? Los conceptos, las prácticas y las controversias detrás del comercio de carbono

¿Diseñado para fracasar? Los conceptos, las prácticas y las controversias detrás del comercio de carbono. Ahora disponible en español.El calentamiento global es ya una realidad. Los climatólogos advierten que, a menos que...

15/06/2011

NGO statements

FERN statement to the Forest Stewardship Council on withdrawing FERNs membership

In a position paper presented to the FSC General Assembly in 2008, FERN and other FSC members from the environmental and economic chamber highlighted the changes necessary for the FSC to regain and retain its credibility. In 2009,...

08/06/2011

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