Publications & Insight

FLEGT ‘Fitness Check’: Abandoning FLEGT licenses would harm forest governance and the legal timber trade

Civil society organisations urge the EU to stay the course with visionary FLEGT programme

08/04/2021

Reports

Beyond Commitments

How can NDCs contribute to forest governance and resilient local communities?

31/03/2021

NGO Statements

Response to the Forest Strategy consultation - A world of strong and healthy forests

Ursula von der Leyen is the first European Union (EU) Commission President to publicly recognise how important forests are to life on our planet. But with the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse looming, time is short to turn...

24/03/2021

Briefing Notes

Five ways the EU can ensure forests support EU climate and biodiversity goals

To tackle the climate crisis, EU land and forests need to absorb more carbon dioxide, but the opposite is happening. EU forest health and biodiversity is declining, even in EU forests protected by legislation. Half of all the wood...

18/03/2021

Forest Governance 2 - February 2021

Forest governance in the Congo: Domestic advances but climate plans lag behind

27/01/2021

Beyond commitments: How can Nationally Determined Contributions contribute to forest governance and resilient local communities?

In 2018, Fern and our partners revealed that many African states’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) pledges were not considering the need to improve forest governance. As countries are now preparing and communicating new...

22/12/2020

Forest governance and COVID-19: How can FLEGT support a green recovery from the pandemic?

Human society is enduring one of the greatest global health crises of the past century: COVID-19. As the urgency of tackling the pandemic took centre stage, policy issues such as the implementation of the Forest Law Enforcement...

01/12/2020

Webinar: Unleashing the potential of Community-based forest and wildlife management for building back better: livelihoods, biodiversity, and climate resilience in Africa

Webinar organised by FAO’s Forest Technical Network in Africa (FTN-Africa) 

Monday 7 December 2020 – 11:00-12:30 (Accra/GMT) 12:00 – 13:30 (Kinshasa/Rome time) 

Register here

Background

Most countries in Africa are committed...

30/11/2020

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

Forest Governance 1 - November 2020

The first edition of Fern's new Forest Governance newsletter

16/11/2020