Avoided Deforestation and Degradation
Forestwatch Issue 82
- ITRE issues resolution on illegal logging
- EU procurement directive adopted
- EP draft says no to sinks
- The Mumbai Forest Initiative
- FSC audits Brazilian plantation project
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 OPEN | 16.93 KB |
| Briefing on Forest Convention: Can a legally binding agreement for forests make a difference? | 15.9 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 81
- EU s buying rules put pressure on member states
- CDM rules allow subsidies for mega-plantations
- Poland uncomfortable in forest chair
- EIB postpones decision on Lao mine
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| OPEN | 14.18 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 80
- CDM: a new subsidy for the green desert?
- Destructive Laos project seeks friend in EIB
- Poverty reduction and environment back in ALA regulation
- Parliament lacks resolve on illegal logging
- Confusion in EC climate and development work
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| OPEN | 14.89 KB |
Forest fraud: say no to fake carbon credits
FERN and SinksWatch are calling for EU governments to exclude carbon sinks projects from their climate project portfolios at COP9 in Milan. The report assesses the potential impacts on forests and forest peoples of granting carbon credits to forest-related projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.
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Forest fraud: say no to fake carbon credits
FERN and SinksWatch are calling for EU governments to exclude carbon
sinks projects from their climate project portfolios at COP9 from Milan
climate conference.
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| News release | 17.82 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 77
- EC blind spot on natural resources and poverty
- Climate directive excludes sink projects
- Illegal logging finalé
- Indigenous peoples slashed from aid budget
- ECA rejects Camisea
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| OPEN | 14.59 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 76
- NGOs set ECA reform agenda as OECD nears
- Forest certification stalled in Cancun
- Land rights policy
- UNFF3: Another failure
- PCF investors steered away from plantations
- Minister s offensive comments expose flaws of Malaysian certification scheme
- Forest industry smells green gold in CEE
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| OPEN | 474.97 KB |
5 examples of Export Credit Agency projects and their impacts
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| OPEN | 5.87 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 73
- Carbon sinks debated but big question remain
- Reorganisation at DG Environment
- EU at crossroads on CDM carbon sinks
- First step to link aid and climate change policies
- Ecolabel on furniture
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| OPEN | 80.34 KB |
| Special Report: The European Convention and the environment | 19.49 KB |
Brazilian groups urge EU companies not to buy carbon credits from eucalyptus plantation
Press release distributed by FERN.
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| OPEN | 20.8 KB |