France floats ‘compensation’ to maintain DRC logging moratorium The French Environment Minister and President of COP21, Ségolène Royal, has raised the possibility of…
Credit where it’s due! 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…
News in brief - April 2016 Communities Rights NetworkRepresentatives from 12 VPA countries will be in Brussels from 11 April to discuss how to improve forest governance and strengthen communities’…
EUTR is up to the challenge – if Member States and private sector are The European Timber Regulation (EUTR) remains a “highly relevant” tool in the fight against the trade in illegal timber and has…
Civil aviation’s climate change plan: fiddling while Rome burns After the majority of the world’s countries signed a global agreement to hold the increase in global temperatures to well below 2…
EU holds its ground on legality standards for Indonesian timber Indonesia still hopes to become the first country in the world to export timber to the EU under a FLEGT (Forest, Law Enforcement,…
Time to end impunity in Congo’s forest sector The rights of forest communities in the Republic of Congo continue to be violated with impunity, a recent report by the Organisation…
LULUCF discussed in European Parliament The European Parliament hosted an event organised by Fern on 16 February on how best to tackle land use and forests in the EU’s climate and energy…
EU and Member States must get serious about private sector activities A new report by Greenpeace has shown how Socfin (Société Financière des Caoutchoucs), a leading palm oil plantation company…
News in brief - March 2016 A group of more than 50 international organisations have written to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández to demand an independent international…
