Notes d’information

What does ‘Fit for 55’ mean for forests?

Why the European Commission's 2030 climate and energy proposal is unfit for forests.

27/07/2021

Restoring more than forests - SUMMARY REPORT

How rights-based forest restoration can empower communities, recover biodiversity, and tackle the climate crisis

Forest restoration is gaining traction around the world as a key strategy to mitigate climate change and...

13/11/2020

Restoring more than forests

How rights-based forest restoration can empower communities, recover biodiversity, and tackle the climate crisis

Forest restoration is gaining traction around the world as a key strategy to mitigate climate change and...

13/11/2020

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

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

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

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

Reports

EU Forests of Hope

How community restoration and management of forests can help meet climate goals

01/04/2020

Reports

Gestion forestière et changement climatique: une nouvelle approche de la stratégie nationale d’atténuation

Un nouveau rapport conteste la stratégie forestière à long terme de la France pour lutter contre le changement climatique. Cette étude met en exergue les failles du plan français de production de chaleur et d'électricité à partir de la combustion du bois et propose une vision alternative où les forêts jouent un plus grand rôle dans la lutte contre le dérèglement climatique, tout en devenant plus résilientes et en subvenant aux besoins en bois.

03/02/2020

Briefing notes

Europe’s National Energy and Climate Plans to 2030: Are they fit for purpose?

The National Energy and Climate Plans, due to be published by the end of 2019  will determine whether and how we limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.

Fern has conducted an analysis of the plans of five Member States – Sweden,...

02/12/2019