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The EU’s Vision on Food & Agriculture betrays consensus and reinforces polarisation

The European Commission’s new Vision on Food and Agriculture focuses overwhelmingly on what is happening on farms, ignoring almost every other part of the food sector.

The vision, which is intended to steer the direction of...

19/02/2025

Events

Clean Heat for Homes

Securing a just energy transition to reduce the EU’s legacy reliance on wood burning

18/02/2025

News, Forest Watch

Forest Watch 302 - February 2025

Defending forests and democracy in a shifting political landscape

06/02/2025

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

The VPA has been a catalyst for change in Liberia. The EU’s plan to abandon it threatens hard-won gains

Among the potential casualties of the EU’s decision to unilaterally terminate its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) timber trade agreement with Liberia, is the damage it will inflict on the West African nation’s fight against...

06/02/2025

News, Forest Watch

Will Porsche destroy an old-growth oak forest in Italy to extend a test track?

Since 2012, the German car company Porsche has managed the Nardò Technical Centre (NTC) in Southern Italy, a famous test drive centre built in 1975 that features a 12.6-kilometre high-speed circular track – the Ring – where...

06/02/2025

News, Forest Watch

EUDR: from ‘irritant’ to bargaining chip in free trade negotiations

In December 2024, the European Commission and Latin American Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) announced a political agreement on a renegotiated version of the 2019 EU Mercosur Association Agreement.  

In...

06/02/2025

News, Forest Watch

Uprising in Santiago de Compostela against pulp mill with EU link

In these tense times, it is heartening to see people care enough to strongly defend the climate and environment. In mid-December 2024, more than 100,000 individuals hit the streets of Santiago de Compostela – a turn-out unheard of...

06/02/2025

Blogs

A Dangerous Mirage

Politicians are clutching on to carbon capture technologies as a climate solution – just as evidence mounts of its failures, writes Kerstin Meyer.

05/02/2025

Reports

Indonesian palm oil smallholders and the EUDR: Impacts and ways forward

After much upheaval, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) will now come into action at the end of 2025. As the focus turns once again to implementation, careful attention must be paid to the EUDR’s impact on smallholders.

Compa...

04/02/2025

NGO Statements

Ensuring EUDR benchmarking reflects human rights and environmental risks

The European Commission must ensure that benchmarking under the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) upholds the law’s ambitions and reflects human rights and deforestation risks existing in areas of...

28/01/2025