Environment Committee fails to act on biomass burning Despite some positive points, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament (ENVI) failed to set EU bioenergy policy on a sensible course…
Environment Committee wins sole competence of the LULUCF regulation The Land use, Land use change and Forestry (LULUCF) regulation currently being debated by the European Parliament will remain in…
Environmental and social conditions of ‘RebuildUkraine’ As the Ukraine Recovery Conference begins in Lugano (Switzerland), 25 NGOs from Ukraine and across Europe have sent a letter to the European…
ESABCC report on CDR: Is Europe giving up on forests? Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2…
Estonia discards the impact assessment of its Forestry Development Plan Civil society groups condemn Estonian Government’s support for unsustainable forest management practices and its rejection of…
Estonia’s Environmental Board takes positive action to halt forest destruction The Commission is pushing for a more meaningful take on EU environmental obligations. Following a motivational…
Estonian Forest NGOs under pressure after challenging government forestry decision Estonian environmental NGOs have had enough of being outgunned as they stand up to a mighty timber industry and…
Estonian forest politics in 2020: conflict intensifies Almost a year ago, avid readers of Fern’s guest blogs learned that Estonian environmental NGOs were under pressure for challenging…
ETS reforms steal attention from measures that could actually work FERN wrote this guest commentary for PointCarbon (www.pointcarbon.com) to highlight that the time has come to give up waiting for…
Étude diagnostique sur la foresterie communautaire en République du Congo Cette étude diagnostique se penche sur les opportunités et les contraintes pour le développement de la foresterie…
