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In December 2014, the Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, presented the Dutch Parliament with a set of sustainability criteria to be used to assess whether biomass should be used for power generation. The criteria were...
03/12/2014
Every six months, FERN produces an update looking at the present situation with regards the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, with a specific focus on Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs)....
11/11/2014
The tropical rainforests covering vast tracts of the Republic of Congo (RoC) are being chopped down at a startling rate. As they vanish, the people living in them fall deeper into poverty and global climate...
23/09/2014
Un puits de carbone est un élément qui absorbe plus de carbone qu’il n’en rejette, tandis qu’une source d’émission de carbone est un élément qui rejette plus de carbone qu’il n’en absorbe. Les forêts, les sols, les océans et...
09/09/2014
Can you offset the impacts of a new road carving up a valley? Once you destroy woodland for a motorway service station, can you replace what you lost? How about fracking - can you offset the impacts of a shale gas well? These are...
10/07/2014
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26/06/2014
Through imports of agricultural commodities, EU countries are collectively the biggest cause of deforestation worldwide
29/05/2014
14/04/2014
Johnson Sirleaf has promised villagers who travelled to see her that a palm oil company won't be allowed to expand its plantation on their land
21/03/2014
