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We can all stop holding our breaths: tripartite negotiations among the EU Commission, Parliament and Council concluded, 3 December 2024, with an agreement both to delay application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and not...
12/12/2024
At a time when partnerships are more critical than ever for implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation, the EU Commission is poised to kill off its bravest initiative in forest governance and accountability, and to replace...
Sadly, a company that acts with nonchalance in the absence of authorisations is nothing unusual. What is more remarkable, is when learning that it will not be able to sell the proceeds of its activities on the EU market brings...
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The recent conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, raised high hopes for transformative action to address the escalating climate crisis. Its outcomes largely fell short,...
Ghana is on the brink of a major advance in the fight against illegal logging, say Albert Katako and Obed Owusu-Addai. So why is the EU turning away from its flagship policy to tackle it?
Ghana will soon become the first African...
15/11/2024
Not so long ago, a commentator called the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) “a green jewel in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s crown that has garnered praise and inspired imitations beyond the EU”. But in the...
13/11/2024
Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in the energy sector, it was possibly unaware that this would considerably...
After a scandal revealed that Stora Enso logging operations had crushed IUCN and EU-listed critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels, the company temporarily suspended operations in areas protected under various Finnish laws...
European companies seem to flip flop on the usefulness of having harmonised information systems to monitor their forestry activities, depending on the law being discussed and who is being asked to deliver it. Representatives from...
16/10/2024
After recently offering reassurances to the contrary, the EU Commission’s public statement, 2 October 2024, that it intended to delay the full application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was a shock. The relentless...
