Duty Free? Making EU tariffs Work for People and Forests This report asks whether the EU can set lower tariffs for products identified as sustainably produced. It raises issues surrounding practical…
Effective restoration of the EU’s declining forests requires comprehensive monitoring The Nature Restoration and Forest Monitoring laws currently being elaborated could set us on a path to recovery –…
Elsewhere, due diligence moves forward The United Kingdom and G7 members take steps toward due diligence measures A spoke may have been put in the wheels of the EU’s due diligence proposals, but…
Elusive ‘negative emissions’ must not distract from immediate action at Marrakesh Ahead of the November 2016 climate convention in Marrakesh (COP22), Fern released ‘Going Negative – how…
NGO Statement to EU Member States on EUDR implementation 29 June 2023 MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: Your obligations to implement the new EU Deforestation Regulation start today The new EU…
End subsidies for forest biomass Burning forest biomass undermines the EU’s objectives toward climate change mitigation, nature protection and a circular economy and has a devastating, irreversible…
End the Cage Age This letter was sent to Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis, Vice-President Jourová, Commissioner Kyriakides, and Commissioner…
Ending corruption, improving forest governance: why it matters Fern campaigner, Marie Ange Kalenga was invited to produce a blog for Transparency International’s 20th anniversary. Beyond obvious…
Life on earth depends on forests. The world’s forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, but when they are chopped down, the gas is released back into the atmosphere. Forest…
Ending imported destruction: How EU due diligence regulations could protect forests and people Read the full report of the eventFern and the Responsible Business…
