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)

Sustainability: the Core of the New Development Goals?

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 8 January 2014

The Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Ibrahim Thiaw, reminds us - as underlined at Rio+20 in 2012 - that the goals of the post-2015 development agenda need, at their very heart, to be sustainable. How can organisations like UNEP help to forge this into reality?

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Yves Leenaerts commented on an article | 20 December 2013

Protecting Soil Fertility: Protecting Life

For viewers interested by soils fertility... Let me share with you a brillant presentation titled " Agroforestry an essential resilience tool " made by Patrick Worms, Senior Scientific Advisor of the World Agroforestry Centre (also known as the ICRAF) at the infopoint in Brussels (13/12/2013). http...
Localise Global Problems, says Lamy

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 December 2013

The Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, a unique, interdisciplinary research community chaired by former World Trade Organization head, Pascal Lamy, released their long anticipated “Now for the Long Term” report in October. It offers frank discussion on how to break gridlock on major...

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Protecting Soil Fertility: Protecting Life

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 10 December 2013

There is much discussion in the development arena about the struggle ahead to feed the seven plus billion, of the methods proposed towards food security, building resilience, safeguarding water resources and so on. But few stop to ponder the basic ingredient in all of this: the very land under our...

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Civil Society Shares Their Experience of the VPA Process at FLEGT Week 2013

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 23 November 2013

The European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative calls on the involvement of civil society in the negotiation and implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) with timber exporting countries. But while getting a voice at the negotiating table is...

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6. Interviews: Representatives of the Civil Society - Conference "Guardians of the forests" - 10 years of EU FLEGT

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 20 November 2013

In October, Members of the European Parliament Fiona Hall (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe), Yannick Jadot (Group of the Green) and the environmental NGO Fern hosted a high-level conference entitled “ Guardians of the Forests? ” at the European Parliament in October, where...

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5. Interviews made at the Conference "Guardians of the forests?" - 10 years of EU FLEGT - European Parliament

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 20 November 2013

The following interviews were filmed at the Conference "Guardians of the forests? - 10 years of EU FLEGT" organised at the European Parliament on 9 October 2012 1. Yannick JADOT, Member of the European Parliament 2. Fiona HALL, Member of the European Parliament 3. Fred PEARCE, Environment Journalist

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4. Conference "Guardians of the forests? - 10 years of EU FLEGT"

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 20 November 2013

In October, Members of the European Parliament Fiona Hall (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe), Yannick Jadot (Group of the Green) and the environmental NGO Fern hosted a high-level conference entitled “ Guardians of the Forests? ” at the European Parliament in October, where...

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1. FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) : Training Films

Diane KELECOM updated the WIKI page | 20 November 2013

Training film 1 Illegal logging: Why enter a VPA? (18:12 min) Training film 2 VPAs: Assuring Legality (16:03 min) Training film 3 VPAs: Involving Stakeholders (19:27 min) Training film 4 VPAs and Changing Markets (16:49 min)

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6. Interviews: Representatives of the Civil Society - Conference "Guardians of the forests" - 10 years of EU FLEGT

Team FLEGT created a new WIKI page | 19 November 2013

In October, Members of the European Parliament Fiona Hall (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe), Yannick Jadot (Group of the Green) and the environmental NGO Fern hosted a high-level conference entitled “ Guardians of the Forests? ” at the European Parliament in October, where...

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