Publications & Insight

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

Taking the EUDR pushback too far: Brazilian states pass laws to punish corporate responsibility

Alice Thuault, executive director of Brazilian NGO Instituto Centro de Vida, describes a legislative attack on companies making extra efforts to rein in deforestation. 

Using the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) as a pretext,...

03/04/2025

News, Forest Watch

Clear-cutting in Dutch forests is no longer allowed

On 19 March 2025 the Association of Forest and Nature Reserve Owners (VBNE) withdrew their appeal against a lower-court ruling that protects Dutch forests and biodiversity from clear-cutting. The groundbreaking decision of the...

03/04/2025

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Can EU partnership ties with Indonesia help shield Indonesia’s local communities from harm?

Indonesian CSO Pusaka offer insight into grassroots-level impacts to encourage the EU to use the EUDR and other trade instruments to help. 

Despite the political upheaval surrounding the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR),...

05/03/2025

News, Forest Watch

More and more district heating networks in Europe are switching from combustion to large heat pumps

Fossil gas is largely supplied to the EU by foreign authoritarian regimes (Norway being an exception), and biomass use at the industrial scale destroys forests and undermines the EU’s land sink. Increasingly, however,...

05/03/2025

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The European Parliament’s Draft Report on the Forest Monitoring Law: Retreating from further transparency and precision

Despite forests covering almost 40% of land in the EU, we don’t have easily accessible, real-time information about what is happening to them. Instead, we get assessments every five years that send worrying signals on the state of...

05/03/2025

News, Forest Watch

EU Vision on Agriculture and Food: the Commission ignores consensus from last year’s dialogues

The European Commission released its Vision for Agriculture and Food on 19 February 2025, brushing aside the thoughtful work of a months-long multi-stakeholder dialogue that the Commission convened a year ago. Although the Vision...

05/03/2025

News, Forest Watch

Forest Watch 303 - March 2025

EU U-turn undermines environmental progress

05/03/2025

NGO Statements

Beyond Bioenergy

A civil society statement on EU bioenergy policy

Eighty-two civil society organisations and networks from Europe and beyond have launched 'Beyond Bioenergy', a statement calling the EU to stop rewarding burning trees and crops in...

05/03/2025

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ESABCC report on CDR: Is Europe giving up on forests?

Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere than what we currently let ecosystems do....

04/03/2025

Reports

The Heat is On

A study comparing the use of wood for insulation and fuel

Wood is precious, beautiful, and has multiple uses, but not all are equally beneficial, and there is only a limited amount available.

Despite forests being under...

25/02/2025