The first session of climate negotiations since the adoption of the Paris Agreement has failed to prioritise immediate action to reduce emissions.
Developing countries, who are already feeling the negative impacts of a warming...
10/06/2016
The European Commission consultation process for a new sustainable bioenergy policy received 950 responses as well as 57,000 emails from concerned individuals asking the EU to stop burning trees for energy. Most of these were from...
A letter written by Environment Ministers from 10 Member States could undermine the effectiveness of the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD), the EU’s most important instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The letter to...
A group of five MEPs from the Socialist and Democrat group from Belgium, France, Italy and Hungary have asked for a reconsideration of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This builds on the March 2016 call by more than one...
Leading corporate buyers of palm oil have stopped doing business with the Malaysian company IOI Group, the world’s fourth biggest palm oil trader with 11 per cent of the global market. The reason for the change? IOI was suspended...
At Ise-Shima, Japan, 26 - 27 May 2016, G7 leaders reaffirmed their determination to achieve global sustainable forest management and eliminate illegal logging as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In 2005, G8...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) have signed a letter of intent (LOI) awarding DRC US$200 million to preserve its forests and promote sustainable development.DRC is the first...
When Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) members, including the EU, gather in Paris, 20 - 22 June 2016, to discuss various countries’ emission reduction proposals to the Carbon Fund, they will see that Cameroon’s newly...
China’s rapid economic growth has spurred a massive demand for natural resources, including timber, agricultural commodities and minerals. The vast bulk of these are imported from countries in the Mekong region and West and...
