Publications & Insight

Greta Thunberg standing on a clearcut in central Sweden, to draw attention to Sweden's unsustainable forest management model. Public pressure around the harmful impacts of bioenergy is growing as the EU recasts its Renewable Energy Directive this year.

What to expect when you’re forest campaigning: Upcoming EU Forest policy developments

Julia Christian, Fern’s host of the Forest Movement Europe 

If it weren’t for the pandemic, this week would have seen forest activists from across Europe getting together in southern France to celebrate 30+ years of the Forest...

14/06/2021
Forest Watch 266 - June 2021

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 266 - June 2021

The EU delays two legislative proposals on deforestation, meanwhile due diligence moves forward

10/06/2021
Restoring nature, protecting biodiversity: We cannot wait until it’s all over

Restoring nature, protecting biodiversity: We cannot wait until it’s all over

To act or not to act: The European Parliament heard the ENVI Committee’s call for effective action to support nature; the Commission would like to keep thinking, and measuring.

10/06/2021
Revising RED: The absurdity of burning trees as ‘zero carbon’ must end

Revising RED: The absurdity of burning trees as ‘zero carbon’ must end

Forestry and bioenergy industries are piling on pressure to preserve lucrative bioenergy subsidies. In its upcoming RED proposal, the Commission must stand up to them, for all our sakes.

10/06/2021
Mercosur throws a spanner in the EU trade works

Mercosur throws a spanner in the EU trade works

Trade ministers cannot see eye to eye when the EU-Mercosur agreement is in the picture

10/06/2021
Elsewhere, due diligence moves forward

Elsewhere, due diligence moves forward

The United Kingdom and G7 members take steps toward due diligence measures

10/06/2021
The power of satellite monitoring in European forests

The power of satellite monitoring in European forests

Information session with European campaigning organisations

01/06/2021
The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

NGO Statements

The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

An opportunity to help meet climate and biodiversity objectives

28/05/2021
The UK wants to spearhead the fight to protect the world’s forests...

The UK wants to spearhead the fight to protect the world’s forests...

...but trade, environmental protection and  social justice don’t have to be mutually exclusive, says Chiara Vitali. 

The doubts about the climate crisis that Boris Johnson used to express in his newspaper columns are a thing of...

27/05/2021
Unsustainable and Ineffective: Why EU Forest Biomass Standards won't stop destruction

Briefing Notes

Unsustainable and Ineffective: Why EU Forest Biomass Standards won't stop destruction

There has been intense criticism of the European Union (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) for leading to adverse impacts on forests in Europe and beyond. To tackle these concerns, the EU developed sustainability criteria that...

19/05/2021
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