Publications & Insight

Biodiversity and Carbon Neutrality: The role of EU law

The European Commission has outlined pathways to carbon neutrality in 2050 all of which require negative emissions. The most cost-effective, readily available negative emission comes from forests and other ecosystems, which absorb...

29/09/2020

News, Events

Seminarios web sobre las consultas de la UE y el Reino Unido sobre las propuestas de reglamentación para detener la deforestación

Lo más destacado del seminario web:

A los seminarios web en español, francés, inglés y portugués del Brasil asistieron más de 100 participantes, incluida la sociedad civil de los países productores, así como ONG y donantes...

28/09/2020

Reports

Key elements for an agreement between the EU and cocoa-producing countries, to ensure sustainability in the cocoa sector

The European Commission is exploring bilateral agreements with the governments of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to ensure sustainability in the cocoa sector, and in particular to tackle deforestation, farmer poverty and child labour. 

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22/09/2020

News, Forest Watch

A win for Ebo forest, an unsettling broader picture in Cameroon

In mid-August the Government of Cameroon announced the cancellation of a contested logging concession for Ebo forest, thus suspending a decree adopted only weeks before that had opened 68,385 hectares for logging (FW 256). The...

16/09/2020

Forest Watch 258 - September 2020

EU and UK want your opinion on how to tackle deforestation, Mercosur disarray and a win in Cameroon

16/09/2020

News, Forest Watch

Mercosur disarray exposes EU Trade policy weakness

Germany has at last acknowledged that the EU-Mercosur deal is toxic, joining a growing number of Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) that have expressed concerns – and also revealing the...

16/09/2020

News, Forest Watch

EU and UK launch consultations on policies to reduce deforestation in supply chains

Following its  Communication on Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests in 2019, the European Commission has finally opened a questionnaire-based consultation on policies needed to reduce deforestation and...

16/09/2020

Beyond LULUCF: Legal cover for a shrinking EU forest sink

The Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation will measure − and allow − a drop in carbon storage without penalty. Without better laws, the future for forests looks bleak. 

The rules for accounting forest carbon...

11/09/2020

Films

EU-Mercosur trade deal: What does it mean for Brazil?

Brazil's environmental policies affect some of the world’s most important forests and can have a devastating effect on the traditional communities that live in and off them. This has a knock-on effect on the climate, our planet,...

02/09/2020

Blogs

The COVID recovery plan for Europe: Why MEPs are our last chance to make it work for the climate

The €1.8 trillion pandemic recovery plan and long-term budget deal agreed by EU heads of government on 21 July 2020, after nearly five days of haggling, is widely seen as a political and economic landmark. But from an...

30/07/2020