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NGO recommendations on deforestation regulation

News, NGO Statements

NGO recommendations on deforestation regulation

A group of 55+ NGOs wrote to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginius Sinkevičius regarding the forthcoming proposal for EU legislation to regulate the placing on the EU market of commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation.

10/11/2021
NGOs are alarmed that EU anti-deforestation law could let soy-driven forest destruction off the hook

News, NGO Statements

NGOs are alarmed that EU anti-deforestation law could let soy-driven forest destruction off the hook

In a letter, a coalition of NGOs urged the EU Commission to ensure that all soy imports, including soybean cake and soy-protein concentrate (SPC), and those produced through the conversion of savannahs, are included in the scope...

08/11/2021
NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

News, NGO Statements

NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the EU can create a bioenergy policy that civil society and citizens can support.

05/11/2021
Las ONG están alarmadas por el abandono tanto de la lucha de la UE contra la tala ilegal como de los compromisos europeos con los países forestales.

Forest governance, NGO Statements

Las ONG están alarmadas por el abandono tanto de la lucha de la UE contra la tala ilegal como de los compromisos europeos con los países forestales.

Esta carta fue enviada al Ministro Janez Janša y al Ministro Jean-Yves Le Drian.Somos un grupo de ONGs medioambientales y de derechos humanos que trabajamos para promover la gobernanza forestal y los derechos de los pueblos de los...

15/10/2021

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Making TSD chapters more effective

NGO Statements

Making TSD chapters more effective

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

11/10/2021
EU-Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana dialogue on sustainable cocoa production and trade

NGO Statements

EU-Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana dialogue on sustainable cocoa production and trade

This letter was sent to Hon. Patrick Jerome Achi, Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire; Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Cocoa Board; H.E. Diana Acconcia, EU Ambassador to Ghana; Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto,...

10/09/2021
NGOs urged Commissioner Sinkevičius to keep rubber in the EU due diligence regulation to halt EU-driven global deforestation

News, NGO Statements

NGOs urged Commissioner Sinkevičius to keep rubber in the EU due diligence regulation to halt EU-driven global deforestation

A group of NGOs wrote a letter to European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius to urge him to ensure that natural rubber is kept as a key forest-risk commodity in the upcoming EU law to halt deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption.

01/07/2021
The Forest Strategy must support people, nature and the climate, and not bow to industry pressure

NGO Statements

The Forest Strategy must support people, nature and the climate, and not bow to industry pressure

This is statement signed by four pan European networks and 67 organisations from 20 countries across Europe calling on the European Commission to ensure the Forest Strategy supports people, nature and the climate.

29/06/2021
The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

NGO Statements

The EU Renewable Energy Directive Recast

An opportunity to help meet climate and biodiversity objectives

28/05/2021
Subir el listón: reforzar el liderazgo de la UE en la protección del clima y de la biodiversidad, mediante el Plan de Acción FLEGT y las asociaciones forestales

NGO Statements

Subir el listón: reforzar el liderazgo de la UE en la protección del clima y de la biodiversidad, mediante el Plan de Acción FLEGT y las asociaciones forestales

En esta declaración se reúnen las perspectivas de organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Asia y el Pacífico, América, Europa y África Central y Occidental que tienen el compromiso de hacer frente a las principales amenazas para...

27/04/2021

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