Publications & Insight

News, Forest Watch

US anti-deforestation framework: the right move, but where will it go next?

On 17 December 2024, the outgoing Biden-Harris administration unveiled a comprehensive six-point policy framework aimed at reducing US imports of products linked to deforestation – a commendable attempt to set positive things in...

17/01/2025

FAQs

What is the link between coffee and deforestation?

How does coffee drinking in Europe contribute to global deforestation?

The EU is the world's biggest consumer of coffee.

But coffee is a major driver of global deforestation, as farmers in places as disparate as Brazil, Vietnam...

14/01/2025

Briefing Notes

Understanding the EU-Congo Forest Partnership

What does it say, what does it do?

The second-largest tropical forest on earth sits in Africa’s Congo Basin. Much of that forest grows in The Republic of Congo (RoC). The EU and RoC signed a Forest Partnership in 2022. Two years...

06/01/2025

Briefing Notes

How the Liberia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement has improved forest governance and law enforcement in Liberia

The context

Liberia is a forest-rich country still recovering from a timber-trade fuelled civil war which raged from 1989 to 2003, killing over 270,000 people. Peace was finally achieved partly thanks to civil society actors...

06/01/2025

Briefing Notes

Concerns about the termination of the Cameroon-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement

The context

Almost half of Cameroon is covered by fast disappearing tropical forests. In 2023, a 12-month Pulitzer Centre investigation confirmed a rise in illegal logging and forest conversion, particularly involving high-value...

06/01/2025

Blogs

Resisting the ravages of mining

Nickel is a key component in EV batteries, and Indonesia has the greatest reserves of it on earth. But extracting it in Kabaena island - where mining companies have been granted licences to 73% of the territory - is destroying...

13/12/2024

News, Forest Watch

Forest Watch 301 - December 2024

COP29 disappoints, EUDR saved, FLEGT in danger and a victory in Cameroon

12/12/2024

News, Forest Watch

A positive outcome for the EUDR saga

We can all stop holding our breaths: tripartite negotiations among the EU Commission, Parliament and Council concluded, 3 December 2024, with an agreement both to delay application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and not...

12/12/2024

News, Forest Watch

Strong partnerships must build on two decades of FLEGT results

At a time when partnerships are more critical than ever for implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation, the EU Commission is poised to kill off its bravest initiative in forest governance and accountability, and to replace...

12/12/2024

News, Forest Watch, Partner Voices

The EUDR is already having an impact – but considerable awareness-raising remains to be done

Sadly, a company that acts with nonchalance in the absence of authorisations is nothing unusual. What is more remarkable, is when learning that it will not be able to sell the proceeds of its activities on the EU market brings...

12/12/2024