forests and biodiversity
Friends of the Earth International and member group publications on plantations, forests and climate change and agrofuels.
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community based forest governance
Friends of the Earth International, June 2008: Community-based forest governance is a concept that opens new horizons and new spaces for communities to exercise political control of their territories and resources. Through horizontal decision-making mechanisms, it allows for community transparency and accountability. Read the report
Women raise their voices against tree plantations
Friends of the Earth International, March 2009: The role of the European Union in disempowering women in the South.
Forests are more than carbon
Friends of the Earth International, August 2008: We need a just global transition to low carbon economies. Industrialized countries must take the lead by assuming responsibility to radically reduce emissions, as well as meet their obligations for financial and technology transfers to the South, exclusive of offsetting mechanisms, based on the climate debt that the North owes the South.
forests in a changing climate
Friends of the Earth International, December 2008: Will forests' role in regulating the global climate be hindered by climate change? This information briefing aims to bring together available current and/or relevant research to inform discussion about reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, especially within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
community based forest governance
Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Human civilization has played a role in forest destruction for millennia. However, in the recent decades this devastation has become commonplace, and has reached a scale and pace of destruction that is unprecedented. Primary forests are the home and foundation for the rich cultures and lifestyles of more than 1 billion Indigenous people. Another four billion live in communities adjacent to, or dependent in some form or another, on forests.
Cana Bois: plundering protected areas in Cameroon for the European market
Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Friends of the Earth Cameroon, June 2009: Report providing evidence that the Cameroon-based logging company Cana Bois has been illegally logging timber on a large scale for the European market.
redd myths
Friends of the Earth International, December 2008: A critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries.
Paper tiger, hidden dragons: APRIL fools
Friends of the Earth International, February 2002: The forest destruction, social conflict and financial crisis of Asia Pacific resources International Holdings Ltd (APRIL), and the role of financial institutions and paper merchants.
fertile resistance in forests
Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement, August 2002: This report talks about local communities around the world defending forest diversity without a government mandate.
policy, practice, pride & prejudice
Friends of the Earth Netherlands, July 2007: Review of legal, environmental and social practices of oil palm plantation companies of the Wilmar Group in Sambas District, West Kalimantan (Indonesia).
Farmers and biodiversity in Latin America
Friends of the Earth International, May 2003: For rural workers, the creation of biodiversity is the result of an interaction between human beings and nature. People are part of nature.
briefing paper for the people's tribunal on human rights violations
Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth Uruguay/REDES, May 2006: This briefing paper talks about the challenges of taking on the cellulose industry and the the impacts of pulping in South America.
Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) statement
Friends of the Earth International, April 2008: Friends of the Earth International strongly rejects the current process of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS). The Roundtable completely fails to address the major social and environmental impacts of industrial-scale soy cultivation and frustrates real solutions.
