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Starve a project of its money and it will be unlikely to continue. This approach is effective, but tackling them project by project is too slow; making changes in finance policy to prevent the investment in the first place would...
27/03/2015
The EU’s illegal logging initiatives (FLEGT and the EU Timber Regulation) have contributed, inter alia, to improvements in governance, transparency and community participation and have laid down an important foundation for...
Often an issue left to technical experts, Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) made headlines in Brussels at the Environment Council in March when Member States disagreed how it should be included in the EU’s Intended...
26/03/2015
Two recent pieces of legislation in Vietnam indicate an apparent intention to clamp down on logging of natural forests in Vietnam and its neighbours, Cambodia and Laos. The government decisions seem also to respond to requirements...
In 1995, a meeting of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working on forest issues agreed there was a need for a new NGO that would hold the EU accountable to its promises with a focus on forests and peoples. Saskia Ozinga, a...
In the Central African Republic (CAR), hundreds of representatives from armed groups, political parties, civil society and the religious communities met at the Bangui Forum from 4 - 12 May 2015. The Forum, which received support...
On 12 March 2015, the European Parliament strongly condemned Tanzania’s government for land grabbing, evictions and violence against its Maasai people. This follows on from the November 2014 tweet sent by Tanzania’s President...
Forests and forest-dependent communities are under increasing pressure due to infrastructure projects and the demand for agricultural commodities. Although there is growing recognition of the importance of forests in mitigating...
19/03/2015
Recently, we have seen the emergence of a grave new threat: Tropical forests are now being destroyed not so much for their timber, but to make way for commercial agriculture — driven by the insatiable demand of the “global north” for products such as palm oil, beef and soy. The consequences, both for the fight against climate change and for forest-dependent communities, are catastrophic.
18/03/2015
Previous studies commissioned by the EU have shown that the EU has been leading the world in imports of ‘embodied deforestation’ in the form of agricultural and timber products. This study goes a step further, by showing that the...
17/03/2015
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