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The French Environment Minister and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, has raised the possibility of compensating countries that protect their forests.
Royal was speaking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the second...
15/04/2016
Two great women who have worked hard for forest communities have been publicly recognised: Clare Rewcastle Brown, known for her investigations into corruption in Malaysia, and land tenure specialist Liz Alden Wily.
The New...
Communities Rights Network
Representatives from 12 VPA countries will be in Brussels from 11 April to discuss how to improve forest governance and strengthen communities’ rights through using the FLEGT VPA process. They’ll be...
An evaluation of the 2003 Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan is ongoing, with a view to its possible revision. A website including an online survey has been set up to offer all stakeholders the...
23/03/2016
As the European Commission begins work on issues to be addressed in its 2016 work programme, pressure is building for EU action to rein in EU consumption of agricultural products grown on deforested land. A number of EU Member...
The European Timber Regulation (EUTR) remains a “highly relevant” tool in the fight against the trade in illegal timber and has the “potential to achieve its objectives”, according to a report commissioned by the European...
15/03/2016
After the majority of the world’s countries signed a global agreement to hold the increase in global temperatures to well below 2 degrees, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has made a proposal to achieve Carbon...
Indonesia still hopes to become the first country in the world to export timber to the EU under a FLEGT (Forest, Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) licence, demonstrating that its timber is legal.
Indonesia’s government had...
The rights of forest communities in the Republic of Congo continue to be violated with impunity, a recent report by the Organisation Congolaise des Droits de l’Homme (OCDH) has concluded.
These violations are happening despite...
