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EU Advocate General Yves Bot has found all of the Commission’s complaints well founded in the dispute surrounding the large-scale harvesting of trees in Poland’s Białowieża Forest (FW 228, guest blog).
In his 20 February 2018...
01/03/2018
All eyes are on France as it takes over the presidency of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). Launched three years ago to protect the Congo Basin forests and support stronger governance of its ecosystems, CAFI is facing...
While the staunchest supporters of the United Kingdom leaving the EU continue to advocate for ‘slashing the EU red tape choking Britain’ – including scrapping basic environmental protections – a UK minister has pledged to...
The Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l'Homme (OCDH), one of Fern’s local partners in the Republic of Congo, has published a briefing note on the deaths of at least 100 indigenous children living in the Mbanza village inside a...
13/02/2018
The year 2017 was heavy with news of record high temperatures and forest fires, but also with international and EU policy developments on climate and forests. In 2018, the EU and other countries will have an opportunity to ramp up...
06/02/2018
With regard to climate policy, the Parliament seems to have difficulty choosing whether to encourage its constituents or drive us to despair.On 17 January 2018, the European Parliament voted for language to increase the EU’s...
On 25 - 26 January 2018 the criminal chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris opened a defamation trial concerning a complaint brought by Luxemburg-based palm and rubber company Socfin against two French NGOs that work...
After the deaths of more than 50 people in 2017 in open, abandoned mines, a Fern partner in Cameroon, Foder, has launched the “Trop, c’est trop” campaign. The tragic human toll is the unacceptable consequence of poor governance...
05/02/2018
In November 2017, Fern published new research showing why forest carbon offsets should be ineligible for the United Nations (UN) International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) carbon neutral initiative.
Highlighting two...
02/02/2018
Polish ecologists are greeting recent improvements in Poland’s political posture toward the European Union and to Białowieża forest with hope – and a measure of scepticism as to how deep Poland’s new willingness to oblige runs.
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