Publications

Briefing Notes

What is the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products?

The European Union (EU) Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) - to be adopted spring 2023 - prohibits companies from putting products on the EU market unless they are deforestation-free and legally produced. It will...

14/03/2023

Briefing Notes

Not just about trade

Communities from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay give their views on the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

01/02/2023

Briefing Notes

An EU strategic framework for working with countries to achieve deforestation-free production

Why it is needed, and what it could look like.

23/01/2023

Briefing Notes

Europe's Dark Winter

How will people and forests survive the energy crisis?

16/11/2022

Briefing Notes

COP27: Congo Basin countries must increase ambition to protect the world’s second green lung

The November 2022 Climate Change Conference (COP27), held in Egypt was the last milestone before the first Global Stocktake (GST) scheduled for 2023. The GST aims to assess the progress made in implementing Nationally Determined...

09/11/2022

Reports

A gendered perspective of the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

The EU Regulation on deforestation-free products aims to curb deforestation and forest degradation driven by imports of forest and ecosystem-risk commodities. It is expected to be adopted in 2023.

This new report analyses drafts...

29/09/2022

Briefing Notes

A carbon bomb in the heart of Europe

Will the EU biomass loophole give a lifeline to energy giant EPH’s coal power plants?

08/09/2022

Reports

Ten things the legislative proposal on EU forest observation, reporting and data collection needs to consider

Member States are presently required to undertake limited EU level forest monitoring. This is problematic since forests are key to meeting EU biodiversity and climate goals, and there is a fast deteriorating trend in both. The...

18/07/2022

Palm oil production, consumption and trade patterns: The outlook from an EU perspective

Palm oil is used in nearly everything, from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick. It is also used in animal feed and as a biofuel, especially in Indonesia and the European Union (EU).

Unt...

15/06/2022

News, Briefing Notes

Fern’s analysis of the European Parliament's rapporteur's draft position on the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

On 24 March 2022, the EP rapporteur Luxembourgish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Christophe Hansen of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) released his draft report on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products. This short document is a follow up of Fern’s rapid assessment of the Commission’s proposal.

20/04/2022