Publications & Insight

Blogs, Forest Watch

Forests and Indigenous land rights will be key in Brazil’s upcoming general election

Pierre-Jean Sol Brasier’s visit to Brazil offers insights about the stakes of the path to be chosen next October.

06/05/2022

Blogs

The Rights Path

The world needs a great global forest restoration. But to succeed, it will require the restoration of the rights of forest dwellers: the people who know forests best and have the most reason to defend and nurture them, says Fred Pearce, award-winning writer and Fern board member.

15/10/2021

Blogs

The UK’s plan to stop illegal deforestation is full of holes

Britons, on average, devour 700,000 tonnes of chocolate a year, or three bars a week per person. But how many of them are aware of the provenance of their chocolate, or its true cost? 

Most chocolate sold in the UK is made from...

09/10/2020

Blogs

Compelling new evidence shows the EU’s entanglement with illegal deforestation for soy and cattle farming in Brazil

Since taking office in January 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro has waged a relentless campaign against Brazil’s environmental laws and the rights of its Indigenous Peoples.

This assault helped paved the way for the fires that tore...

17/07/2020

Blogs

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: A Pariah State?

Time overdue for the EU to end its role in Brazil’s environmental and social crimes  

01/07/2020

Blogs

Alors que la dÉforestation ronge l’amazonie, l’europe se dÉcide À agir

Le Brésil vit une période de turbulences.

En l’espace d’un mois, deux ministres de la Santé et le ministre de la Justice ont quitté le gouvernement, plongeant l’administration de Jair Bolsonaro dans la tourmente, alors que la...

25/05/2020

Blogs

Pushing EU trade in the right direction?

Perrine Fournier analyses the French-Dutch call for making trade more sustainable in EU free trade agreements.

20/05/2020

Blogs

Amazonie et Bassin du Congo : même menaces et même combats

Les évêques catholiques parlent de la protection des peuples autochtones et des forêts tropicales en Amazonie et dans le monde : Il est temps d'écouter le cri des peuples et de la nature.

13/11/2019

Blogs

As the Amazon burns and global deforestation accelerates, only unified international action can save the world’s forests

Tropical forests are likely to grab headlines today when Jair Bolsonaro addresses the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York.

In early September, just before a hernia operation, Brazil’s President told reporters, “I will...

24/09/2019

Blogs

Europeans must face their own role in the destruction of the Amazon

Images of the Amazon burning have caused global alarm. They have also, say observers, triggered a response unparalleled in the history of the politics around climate change: the setting of international red lines on environmental destruction.

06/09/2019