Notícias e recursos

Blogs

The EU’s pledged billions for a ‘Green Coronavirus Recovery’. But it is in danger of repeating past mistakes

As we chart the recovery from COVID-19, governments around the world face a grave choice: continue along the path of planetary collapse, or embrace a sustainable future. 

The European Commission, for one, has said that it...

24/11/2020

Fern’s submission to the trade policy review

Fern’s submission to the trade policy review highlights the need to eradicate deforestation from its trade flows. If the EU is to achieve its commitment to end deforestation by 2020, fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals...

20/11/2020

Films

Uma guia ativista para influenciar a União Europeia

O que acontece na UE exerce uma grande influência sobre o destino das florestas do mundo. Os acordos comerciais, as estratégias de pressão, as políticas energética e climática e as importações de madeira, soja, carne bovina, óleo...

19/11/2020

Events

2020 Cocoa Barometer Launch

The Cocoa Barometer Consortium invites you to the launch of the 2020 Cocoa Barometer.

Date: December 1 2020, 16h-17h30 Brussels time

Register here 

There will be simultaneous translation from English into French.

Background

T...

19/11/2020

Films

The power of land rights: why Peru's forest communities have lessons for us all

When Indigenous and forest communities have their right to land enshrined in law there are lower rates of deforestation. The Boca Pariamanu community in Peru is a clear example of the positive knock-on effects. That is why...

18/11/2020

Republic of Congo: Confronted by COVID-19, civil society and local communities pool their energies

23 September 2020: four hundred kilometres from the capital, Brazzaville, sits Ingolo 1, a village of around 1,200 people. The village committee have come together to meet a delegation of civil society organisations (CSOs) to...

18/11/2020

Vietnam timber legality Decree’s silences are as worrisome as its shrinking scope

Vietnam’s Government issued the long-awaited Timber Legality Assurance System Decree (VNTLAS), implementing legality assurance aspects of the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on 1 September 2020. The hope Vietnamese...

16/11/2020

Indonesia’s controversial Omnibus Law casts a long shadow

Indonesian civil society must always navigate challenges surrounding transparency, but this year they have been aggravated by social turbulence and COVID-19. A victory early in the year --in which the government removed a rule...

16/11/2020

NGO statements

Fern’s submission to the trade policy review

Fern’s submission to the trade policy review highlights the need to eradicate deforestation from its trade flows. If the EU is to achieve its commitment to end deforestation by 2020, fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals...

13/11/2020

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