Sustainable Forest Management

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Afforestation - Agroforestry - Forest concessions - Forest governance - Forest industries - Forest management - Forestry education/training - Forestry research - Forestry services - Fuelwood/charcoal - Illegal timber trade & forest crime - Timber regulation - Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)

8. New online calendar on FLEGT and other forest-related events - add your events

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 2 September 2015

Dear FLEGT Community, You can add now FLEGT and forest-related events onto this calendar. Please feel free to populate the calendar at your will and share with all the group the next event you are preparing. https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/public-flegt/calendar/

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Group: Sustainable Forests for the Future
Central African Republic 'Blood Timber'

Michela Tagliaferri uploaded a new Document | 24 July 2015

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Global Witness has published a report that accuses EU companies of fuelling conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) and claims that the EU Member States failed to implement Regulation (EU) 995/2010 (the EUTR). Global Witness says the EU should suspend the VPA with CAR and that the EU Member...

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Group: Sustainable Forests for the Future
Achieving Sustainable Development: are the SDGs fit for purpose?

Diane KELECOM updated the Article | 30 June 2015

The idea of “sustainable” development seems here to stay, but what does unsustainable development look like? Three members of the senior management team at the United Nations Environment Programme shared their views on how to consume sustainably, how to measure the success of the Sustainable...

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Achieving Sustainable Development: are the SDGs fit for purpose?

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 25 June 2015

The idea of “sustainable” development seems here to stay, but what does unsustainable development look like? Three members of the senior management team at the United Nations Environment Programme shared their views on how to consume sustainably, how to measure the success of the Sustainable...

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Evaluating the EU’s Fight against Illegal Logging

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 12 June 2015

Twelve years after the European Union launched a plan to tackle illegal logging, independent evaluators are assessing progress and shortcomings. Their findings could contribute to the definition of any future EU forest policy.

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Chad Battles to Beat Poachers

Capacity4dev Team created a new WIKI page | 5 June 2015

"A rare success story in Africa's war on poaching. It's been fifty years since the creation of Zakouma National Park. For much of that time, poachers have hunted down most of the animals. Now though, a team of crack rangers has brought Chad's wildlife back from the brink. They took CCTV's...

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Project: Parc de Zakouma, Tchad
Ecosystems Approach to Make Agriculture More Efficient, More Sustainable, and to Create More Intelligent Markets

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 13 April 2015

“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of seed diversity, is a discussion that merits much greater attention,”...

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L'action opérationnelle des gardes à Zakouma

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 14 January 2015

Cette vidéo explique le combat quotidien des gardes du Parc de Zakouma - leurs efforts pour protéger leur patrimoine culturel et la biodiversité de cet environnement est très dangereux; ils risquent leurs vies, la plus part du temps face à des braconniers. Source: Jembala Environnement &...

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Project: Parc de Zakouma, Tchad
Threats to the Congo Basin

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 5 December 2014

A major report on the Congo Basin has found the world’s “second lung” is struggling to maintain its rich biodiversity amid deforestation, poaching and the worsening effects of climate change.

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How the European Commission is Facilitating the Move to Green Economy

Diane KELECOM updated the Article | 28 November 2014

In the past year, the European Commission has taken solid steps towards mainstreaming green economy into its development cooperation. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer, Head of the Environment, Climate Change, Natural Resources and Water Unit at EuropeAid, outlines the policy bed, targets and main toolkits...

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