Publications & Insight

Briefing Notes

Submission to the Climate Action Summit 2019

Members of the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance, including Fern were asked provided submissions for consideration within the Nature Based Solutions workstream at the New York Climate Action Summit, which will take place...

07/06/2019

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100 dias de Bolsonaro - Pelo fim do papel da União Europeia no ataque à Amazônia

Uma nova realidade se materializou no Brasil nos 100 primeiros dias desde que Jair Bolsonaro assumiu a presidência da quarta maior democracia do mundo.

O número de incursões de invasores armados nas terras de povos indígenas...

10/04/2019

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Forests in the EU’s Long-term climate strategy

Thirty-eight per cent of the European Union (EU) is covered by forests. They contribute to life and well-being, give children a place to play and dream, and parents a place to walk and talk. They contribute to Gross Domestic...

31/01/2019

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Planting the forest at the root of the EU-Indonesia trade relationship - joint paper

The European Union and Indonesia are currently negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Both Parties have clear objectives for the trade deal, from increased sales in machinery and transport equipment, to...

07/12/2018

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The long road to timber legality: Taking stock of the EU-Vietnam VPA timber trade deal

On 19 October 2018, after eight years of negotiations, the Voluntary Partnership Agreement – a timber trade deal between the European Union (EU) and Vietnam – was signed in Brussels. 

Civil society has been rightly concerned...

06/12/2018

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EU consumption of rubber and deforestation

Natural rubber plantations emerged as a significant source of deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the first decade of the 21st century.

Three quarters of the world’s natural rubber production goes to...

25/10/2018

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Missing Pathways to 1.5°C : Executive summary

This summary of the CLARA report looks at how the land sector can help ambitious climate action. It provides an alternate response to the question of how we can meet the Climate Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping warming to 1.5°C. ...

15/10/2018

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Speaking truth to power: The village women taking on the palm oil giant

The Société Financière des Caoutchouc (Socfin) group is among the world’s biggest independent plantation owners, managing 187,000 hectares of mostly oil palm and rubber plantations in Asia and Africa, where it has been operating...

20/09/2018

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The EU-Japan Free Trade Deal: a threat to the fight against illegal timber?

The Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement is likely to boost incentives for illegal or unsustainable practices in many countries where Japan sources its timber and wood products. It could also sabotage the EU’s own fight against illegal...

12/09/2018

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The EU Forest Manifesto

A call for political groups, candidates for the European elections

and EU leaders to support forests and forest peoples in their

manifestos.

11/09/2018