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Reports

Improving forest governance in relation to palm oil

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This report is also available in Bahasa Indonesia.

The European Union (EU) and Indonesia have been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), known as the Comprehensive Economic...

03/02/2022

Briefing Notes

Using tariffs to incentivise sustainable palm oil

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This briefing is also available in Bahasa Indonesia.

The European Union (EU) and Indonesia have been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), known as the Comprehensive Economic...

03/02/2022

Forest Watch

FLEGT VPA paved the way for the US-Vietnam Timber Agreement

A US-Vietnam agreement underscores FLEGT’s broad impact

09/11/2021

Fears the EU-Indonesia trade agreement won’t learn from mistakes of the past

There are parallels with the problematic Mercosur-EU trade agreement as Indonesian NGOs reveal the lack of an impact assessment and concerns about human rights impacts.

13/10/2021

NGO Statements

Making TSD chapters more effective

Joint contribution to the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Review

11/10/2021

So far, EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement delivers only for trade

Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.

16/09/2021

Bolsonaro under scrutiny in The Hague for crimes against humanity, genocide and possibly ecocide

Jair Bolsonaro is finally facing global opposition to the destruction he has wrought, so why is the EU still considering signing the Mercosur trade deal?

14/07/2021

Mercosur throws a spanner in the EU trade works

Trade ministers cannot see eye to eye when the EU-Mercosur agreement is in the picture

10/06/2021

EU Trade Policy Day: people want a trade policy that tackles climate change

With significant adjustments, EU trade deals now being negotiated could help tackle climate change.

04/05/2021

Could the palm oil arrangement between Indonesia and Switzerland offer lessons for EU and Indonesia free trade agreement negotiations?

The agreement innovates by linking tariff reductions to sustainability – but fails to integrate governance reform.

08/04/2021