Notes d’information

Reports

Enforcing due diligence legislation ‘plus’

Our latest policy analysis on how to end EU imports of Forest Risk Commodities looks at the type of regulation the Commission should adopt to halt and reverse global deforestation and how it could be enforced. 

The report draws...

15/10/2020

How the EU Biodiversity Strategy can protect and restore forests and rights

Unsustainable forestry, agriculture and mining have a devastating effect on the global environment. Wildlife is in terminal decline and there is precious little nature left to provide the food, resources, and space that humans...

12/10/2020

Reports

Key elements for an agreement between the EU and cocoa-producing countries, to ensure sustainability in the cocoa sector

The European Commission is exploring bilateral agreements with the governments of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to ensure sustainability in the cocoa sector, and in particular to tackle deforestation, farmer poverty and child labour. 

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22/09/2020

Briefing notes

Laisser vieillir les arbres : une stratégie efficace pour le climat

Les forêts françaises sont aujourd’hui à la croisée des chemins. En effet, depuis le Grenelle de l’environnement en 2007, les appels à mobiliser davantage de bois se multiplient. Ainsi, les forêts sont de plus en plus considérées...

14/07/2020

NGO statements

Direct threat to Indigenous territories of Mato Grosso and Brazil

Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020 

Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...

26/06/2020

Briefing notes

Biodiversity first: How European forests can help tackle the climate crisis

The European Union (EU) has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. This will require us to both drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon dioxide removals – negative emissions.

This briefing shows why...

25/06/2020

NGO statements

Fern soutient le mouvement Black Lives Matter dans son combat pour la justice

La vision de Fern est celle d’un monde où la justice environnementale, économique et sociale est pleinement respectée à tous les niveaux. A cet effet, nous œuvrons aux côtés de nos partenaires pour lever le voile sur...

03/06/2020

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

Briefing notes

Le pacte vert pour l’Europe doit appuyer les pays partenaires dans leur sortie de la crise du COVID-19

Fern et 15 autre ONG œuvrant pour le climat, l’environnement, les droits humains et le développement durable ont publié une déclaration sur la réponse mondiale de l’UE à la crise du COVID-19. 

La déclaration salue l’initiative de...

06/05/2020