CLIMATE FINANCE - How can it help to protect forests and human rights and improve governance? Forests are crucial to keeping average global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Their protection and…
NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive" This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the…
History in the making? The United States and the European Union are on the verge of passing historic anti-deforestation laws. But for all their strengths, both still have major flaws, write Nicole…
How the EU, UK and US deforestation laws will impact Brazil COP26 side event COP26 side event Co-organisers: APIB (Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil), Fern and IPAM…
NGOs are concerned that EU anti-deforestation regulation would largely fail to address deforestation in Brazil A group of NGOs shared their concerns about the upcoming EU legislation on forest and…
The Rights Path to Restoration The world needs a great global forest restoration. But for that to work climatically, socially or ecologically it also needs a global restoration of land rights for…
Forest Governance 3 - April 2021 FLEGT-VPAs: Worth fighting for For Fern’s civil society partners in several tropical forest countries, most of the past decade’s improvements in forest governance…
Cameroon’s forests can be saved – but only with the support of local communities and environmental activists Lush, tropical forests cover approximately 40 per cent of Cameroon, yet since 1990, more…
Independent forest monitoring in Congo: A governance tool at risk? In the Republic of the Congo (RoC), the forestry sector continues to face governance challenges. Authorities often struggle to…
CAR: Independent Forest Monitors are making a comeback The political instability that still confronts the Central African Republic undermines the protection and inclusive management of its forests.…
