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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…
How to tackle labour rights in the EU-Vietnam wood furniture trade
Vietnam is one of the world’s leading wood processing hubs and the European Union is a high value, strategic market for its wood and…
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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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Learn about the demands of communities in producer countries
In this open letter to the EU, movements, Indigenous Peoples and organisations from resource-rich countries in the Global South explain…
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What do Fern and our partners want?
The EU must stop supporting the trade in commodities that drive deforestation and human rights…
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What do Fern and our partners want?
The EU should insist on only importing legal and sustainable palm oil from Indonesia, and…
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What are the alternatives to bioenergy and BECCS?
The answers are surprisingly simple.
Instead of burning forests for energy, we can…
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What is a Free Trade Agreement?
A Free trade Agreement (FTA) is a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two or more countries to reduce barriers to…
What’s the difference between restoration, reforestation and afforestation?
Restoration is returning a forest ecosystem to a previous, healthy state. Reforestation refers to…
