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An agreement with the EU to stop the sale of illegally cut wood may bring a brighter future for forest communities but challenges remain
11/02/2014
Export Credit Agencies, commonly known as ECAs, are public agencies and entities that provide government-backed loans, guarantees and insurance to corporations from their home country seeking to do business overseas in developing...
10/01/2014
Environmental offsetting enables a company, country or individual to be legally or morally allowed to pollute or otherwise damage the environment as long as they pay someone else somewhere else to attempt to compensate for some or all of the negative consequences.
Carbon trading is the process of buying and selling permits and credits that allow the permit holder to emit carbon dioxide.
08/01/2014
The EU and its partners from the ‘High Ambition Coalition,’ recently called on countries to join a voluntary carbon-offsetting scheme to compensate for aviation’s massive projected growth in emissions. Unfortunately, such a call...
13/10/2013
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)....
22/05/2013
This update on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) looks in detail at five countries in the Congo Basin: the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and...
13/03/2013
The 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP18) was held in Doha, Qatar against a backdrop of high profile reports warning that the world is heading for between 4 and 6°C...
30/01/2013
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 VPAs. This November 2012 example looks at...
12/11/2012
June 20, 2012
Prototype Carbon Fund participants lukewarm on plantation offsets Irish levy: Polluter Pays ... anyone? ECAs and APP’s proposed new mill: Just don’t A Critical lesson for REDD Cameroon: Killing the VPA? civil...
30/06/2012
