The Avoidable Crisis - The European Meat Industry's Environmental Catastrophe The "avoidable crisis" is an investigation that reveals the disastrous impacts caused by soy production in Argentina and…
VPAs and NDCs: Sharing the Toolbox? – How lessons learned from EU FLEGT can be put to work for the Paris Agreement As the Paris Agreement is ratified by each of its signatory states, they commit to…
What role do forests and governance play in countries’ nationally determined contributions to the Paris Climate Agreement? This study analyses the correlation between forest governance and…
NGO Letter: Stop the Svydovets ski resort in Ukraine A letter from 21 NGOs asking the President of Ukraine to stop the huge ski resort project planned in the “Svydovets” massif in the Carpathian…
Civil society statement: EU Protein Plan for Europe - Please stand up for forests, people and animals! On March 8, NGOs sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the Committee on…
How do forest NGOs deal with gender in their work? This study was funded by Fern to analyse the extent to which Forest NGOs take gender into account and how they design their programmes to ensure…
Implications of new research for the IPCC 1.5°C special report, with a focus on land use Interested scientists are currently invited to review the Second Order Draft of the Intergovernmental Panel…
EU consumption of cocoa and deforestation Cocoa consumption is a major cause of deforestation – estimated to have destroyed an area of forest the size of Belgium between 1988 and 2008. Other…
NGO Statement calling on the Commission to propose an EU Action Plan On February 7, NGOs sent an open letter to the EU Commission calling it on to commit to developing a formal action plan,…
The right to agroecology: Using the law to support sustainable farming in Brazil This publication shows how existing national and international legal frameworks can support sustainable agriculture…
