Export Credit Agencies and Climate Change: a briefing for Cancun After the collapse of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Copenhagen in December 2009, the future financial…
Driving to destruction This study analyses the likely impacts on land use and greenhouse gas emissions of biofuel use by 2020, as projected in recently published National Renewable Energy Action…
Enhancing forest protection is key in future CAP In this position paper, FERN explains that the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should prioritise enhanced forest protection and improved…
Forest bioenergy and biodiversity in the EU: The threats, the possibilities and the challenges This report looks at the possible benefits of biomass use and considers the levels of biomass that may…
Forests in danger: failures of EU policy and what needs to change Though EU policy aims to give equal weight to the 'commercial interests' versus 'ecological interests' of forests, in practice,…
Process to ratify timber trade agreements A short briefing note on the processes that leads to operational VPA agreements. The VPA process is undertaken by the EU on behalf of all its Member…
Trading carbon: how it works and why it is controversial In the drive to tackle climate change, carbon trading has become the policy instrument of choice among governments. It is also a central…
Fools gold: How the planet pays the price for Europes export credits Member States' Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are undermining EU climate objectives by providing billions of euros worth of…
European ECA support to carbon intensive industries, a research paper by Profundo This research conducted for FERN analyses the involvement of all 21 ECAs of EU member countries in the financing of…
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation This report is intended primarily for opinion-formers and decisionmakers with a role in making and influencing…
