Value proposition

Making Europe work for people and forests

Fern is an international non-governmental organisation created in 1995 to keep track of the EU’s involvement in forests and to co-ordinate NGO activities at the European level. Through its work, Fern aims to increase the political and economic opportunities for people to create a more balanced society in which human rights are fully respected and environmental and social values are fully integrated.

Fern’s official mission statement describes the organisation and its aims thus: Fern works to achieve greater environmental and social justice, focusing on forests and forest peoples’ rights in the policies and practices of the European Union.

European forests and biodiversity, Illegal logging, Forest governance, Forest and Climate, Carbon trading, Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) and trade and investment, LULUCF, and Bioenergy