Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Verdens Skove / Forests of the World |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
Non-governmental organization
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| Website address: |
http://www.verdensskove.org
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
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Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Karin Elisabeth Lind
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Signe Buhl
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| Position: |
Board member |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
4 B Odensegade
P.O. box: 5102
Århus C 8000
DENMARK
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| Telephone number: |
(+45) 86135232 |
| Fax number: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Goal: "Sustainable use of the forests of the world"
The organization works with forest policy at both the national level in Denmark, at the national level in several Latin American countries and at the global level within the UNFCCC, the CBD, the FSC and other forums.
We work with:
-better protection of indigenous peoples' rights, especially through projects in Central America and Bolivia
-maintaining the integrity the Forest Stewardship Council from within while promoting demand for sustainably sourced timber from without
-creating alternatives to overexploitation of forest resources through projects with forestry cooperatives, ecotourism, environmental education and agroforestry in Latin America
-creating awareness of the demand side drivers of forest destruction and the need to change consumption patterns
-driving change in Danish nature and forest policy to allow more dynamics and space for nature's own processes along with reintroduction of key species now extinct.
-creating awareness of the trade-offs that an intensive use of biomass for energy can pose for biodiversity and social concerns
-sending volunteers from Denmark to work on environmental projects in Latin America
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
1
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Complementary information:
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We are a number of volunteers that occasionally do lobby work at the national and EU level but altogether we probably do not even add up to one full time person, certainly not at the EU level.
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Areas of interest representation:
Danish and EU nature and forest policy
Danish and EU biomass/biofuel policy
Danish development aid policy
Forest, indigenous population and tourism policy in Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Bolivia
UNFCCC forest negotiations, especially REDD and LULUCF
CBD negotiations including Access and Benefit Sharing and the work programme on protected areas, especially forests
Activities include attending conferences, attending meetings with politicians and government officials, arranging public meetings, marches and campaigns, talking to journalists, writing letters, articles, op-eds and the like.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Development
- Environment
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
1,360 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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The organization belongs to:
The Danish 92-group - forum for sustainable development
The Danish NGO-forum
The Danish Forest Council (Skovrådet)
The Green Contact Group (Det Grønne Kontaktudvalg)
The environmental chamber of the Forest Stewardship Council in Denmark and internationally
Climate Action Network-Europe
The Ecosystems Climate Alliance
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change
among others
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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Total budget:
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2,375,000
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€
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of which public financing:
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1,914,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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1,914,000
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
461,000
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€
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- donations:
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272,000
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€
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- contributions from members:
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86,000
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€
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- -travel bureau activity :
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103,000
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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The figures above are rounded figures based on the 2011 annual account.
The organization's budgetary spending on lobbying the EU is close to zero as it is volunteer driven.
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