Illegal logging is believed to account for between 15 and 30 per cent of the international trade in timber, with revenues running into billions of dollars each year.
This has prompted the EU, the…
Fern agrees with the European Commission that there is a need for the EU to help tackle biodiversity loss.
We were concerned however, that ‘biodiversity offsetting’ was being considered to help…
Despite EU claims to be a leader in halting climate change, its trade and investment policies are making problems worse.
Among the most damaging institutions supported by EU policies are Export…
Development Finance Institution (DFI) is the umbrella term for a specialised bank or subsidiary which provides finance for projects in the global South that would otherwise struggle to raise…
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Consumers choose whether to buy certified products on a near daily basis as certifications schemes exist for timber products, fish, organic food and many other items.
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Despite destroying both forests and forest-dependent peoples’ livelihoods, industrial scale logging and agriculture plantations are often presented as the only routes to…
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Coal is the single biggest contributor to man-made climate change, while deforestation accounts for up to one-sixth of carbon dioxide emissions.
Beyond the ‘double whammy’ that razing forests to…
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