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Including smallholders in EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests

In Mid-December 2021 the European Commission is due to release a regulatory proposal to minimise the European Union’s (EU) deforestation and forest degradation footprint. In advance of this draft proposal, six NGOs have come...

21/09/2021

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A brief guide to the European Union

What is the European Union (EU), how does it work and, most importantly how can activists, civil society representatives and NGOs influence EU decisions and policies?

These are the questions answered by our new EU guide, written...

23/06/2021

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Unsustainable and Ineffective: Why EU Forest Biomass Standards won't stop destruction

There has been intense criticism of the European Union (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) for leading to adverse impacts on forests in Europe and beyond. To tackle these concerns, the EU developed sustainability criteria that...

19/05/2021

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Putting the Environment in Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Ensuring corporate accountability for environmental impacts

in the upcoming EU directive on sustainable corporate governance

17/05/2021

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Five ways the EU can ensure forests support EU climate and biodiversity goals

To tackle the climate crisis, EU land and forests need to absorb more carbon dioxide, but the opposite is happening. EU forest health and biodiversity is declining, even in EU forests protected by legislation. Half of all the wood...

18/03/2021

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Measuring the impact of the EU-Mercosur Trade deal on land use, forests, and the people who depend on them.

Ultimately, the impacts of trade agreements reverberate in local communities, in the individual lives of women, men and children, and in the destruction of the unique areas of forest and habitats which surround them. 

This...

02/12/2020

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Letting trees age: an effective climate strategy

French forests are currently at a crossroads. Ever since the 2007 Grenelle Environment Forum, France, like many European countries, has allowed industrial wood energy projects to proliferate. Now the urgent need to deal with the...

14/07/2020

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Biodiversity first: How European forests can help tackle the climate crisis

The European Union (EU) has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. This will require us to both drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon dioxide removals – negative emissions.

This briefing shows why...

25/06/2020

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The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: What is it, and what could it mean for forests and human rights?

In June 2019 the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) announced that they had reached an ‘in principle’ agreement on the content of a bilateral trade agreement which they had been negotiating,...

02/06/2020

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European Green Deal must strengthen partner countries’ recovery from the COVID-19 crisis

Fern and 15 other NGOs working on climate, environment, human rights and sustainable development issues have released a statement on the EU’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

The statement welcomes EU leadership in supporting...

06/05/2020