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)

Team FLEGT commented on a wiki page | 18 September 2012

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

Dear members, we invite you to watch these 4 movies (dated December 2010) to have a very nice and complete overview of the FLEGT VPAs matter.

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Communities and Environment Set to Benefit from Timber Authentication System

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 31 August 2012

At the annual EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) week in Brussels, attendees discussed new agreements that could provide guarantees that timber entering the European Union is legally sourced, protecting environments and increasing revenues for many tropical region countries.

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Renewable Energy Sources Hold Key to Unlocking Rural Africa’s Power Potential

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 9 August 2012

Per capita electricity consumption in Africa is well below the average for residents of the European Union but that doesn’t mean that the continent is short of sustainable power-generating potential, according to a report published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

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Renewable Energy Sources Hold Key to Unlocking Rural Africa’s Power Potential

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 8 August 2012

Per capita electricity consumption in Africa is well below the average for residents of the European Union but that doesn’t mean that the continent is short of sustainable power-generating potential, according to a report published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

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New Guidelines for Sustainable Urban Development Cooperation

Sarah Simpson updated the Article | 13 June 2012

With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, experts agree that the continuing trend towards urbanisation is both inevitable and irreversible. New EC guidelines propose a fresh mindset to assist the development of better cities.

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The Political Economy of Forest Governance in Ghana. The role of the EU FLEGT initiative

Team FLEGT updated the Information | 12 June 2012

This 20 minute interview with Clare Brogan from theIDLgroup discusses her experience of working within the Ghana Forestry Commission and the negotiations for the Voluntary Partnership Agreement under the EU Forest Law and Environmental Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative. She discusses the...

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The Political Economy of Forest Governance in Ghana. The role of the EU FLEGT initiative

Mathieu Bousquet posted Information | 11 June 2012

This 20 minute interview with Clare Brogan from theIDLgroup discusses her experience of working within the Ghana Forestry Commission and the negotiations for the Voluntary Partnership Agreement under the EU Forest Law and Environmental Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative. She discusses the...

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New Guidelines for Sustainable Urban Development Cooperation

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 22 February 2012

With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, experts agree that the continuing trend towards urbanisation is both inevitable and irreversible. New EC guidelines propose a fresh mindset to assist the development of better cities.

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Africa's Natural Resources: ‘Resource-Rich’ Shouldn’t Mean ‘Conflict Ridden’

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 7 December 2011

All too often, the countries in Africa that nature has endowed with the most economically valuable resources have also struggled with devastating instability and conflict: A paradox that the African Union and European Commission wish to see ended though strong emphasis on democratic accountability...

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Linking Emergency and Development in Burkina Faso

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 29 July 2011

Thanks to a clever use of existing procedures, the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso working in partnership with the government, successfully managed a seamless transition from an emergency intervention by the Commission’s humanitarian body, ECHO, to offering long-term support to more than...

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