Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | Nov. 6, 2009 Forests REDD forest agreement hits new low, missing basic elements No monitoring, no protection of natural forests means continued forest emissions Barcelona - Prospects for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) are on a knife-edge as the United Nations climate change negotiations in Barcelona draw to a close today, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance. | Nov. 4, 2009 Forests Forest protection still missing in REDD negotiations 31 countries lead by signing Forest Pledge; Maldives Vice President calls for leadership | Nov. 2, 2009 Forests EU sets back forest negotiations, threatens Copenhagen deal Barcelona opportunity for UK push on forest protection Barcelona - The future of the world's remaining rainforests will inch closer to resolution when United Nations climate change negotiations resume in Barcelona today as delegates from 190 countries decide on the fate of the forest component of the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty. | Oct. 21, 2009 Forests Myanmar Dramatic decrease in illegal timber trade between Burma and China but smuggling continues The illegal cross-border timber trade between Burma and China has decreased significantly since 2005. However, ‘snake business' is widespread and the authorities in China should do more to clamp down, according to a new detailed review by the campaign group Global Witness. | Oct. 9, 2009 Forests EU Blocks Protection of Natural Forests at Bangkok Climate Talks Bali hopes to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in jeopardy | Oct. 5, 2009 Forests Global Witness elected to represent civil society to UN forest programme Dr. Rosalind Reeve, Head of the Forest Team at Global Witness, has been selected from ten candidates to represent civil society on the UN-REDD Policy Board. The UN-REDD Programme is currently assisting nine countries to prepare for the implementation of REDD - reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries, envisaged as a key component of the post-Kyoto climate agreement currently being negotiated. As the developed countries representative, Global Witness will put forward the concerns of civil society organisations to the Policy Board. | Oct. 5, 2009 Forests European Union Stalling on REDD at Bangkok meeting Agreement intended to protect forests will end up paying loggers to destroy them | Oct. 3, 2009 Forests REDD takes a turn for the worst at Bangkok meeting Bangkok - Today, the UNFCCC released new consolidated text for REDD, the part of the treaty intended to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. With only two weeks of negotiations left before Copenhagen, this text will profoundly influence the shape of the final agreement, determining whether or not we will actually succeed in reducing the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions that result from the continuing destruction of the world's tropical forests and peatlands. | Oct. 2, 2009 Forests Climate agreement at risk of subsidising logging of primary rainforests Bangkok - The post-Kyoto United Nations climate agreement currently being negotiated in Bangkok is at risk of subsidising industrial scale logging of primary forests, according to Trick or Treat?: REDD, Development and Sustainable Forest Management, a briefing paper released today by Global Witness. | Sept. 30, 2009 Forests Liberia Global Witness urges Liberian President not to sign risky logging contracts Show Previous 10 Show Next 10