Publications & Insight

How the EU Biodiversity Strategy can protect and restore forests and rights

Unsustainable forestry, agriculture and mining have a devastating effect on the global environment. Wildlife is in terminal decline and there is precious little nature left to provide the food, resources, and space that humans...

12/10/2020

Blogs

The UK’s plan to stop illegal deforestation is full of holes

Britons, on average, devour 700,000 tonnes of chocolate a year, or three bars a week per person. But how many of them are aware of the provenance of their chocolate, or its true cost? 

Most chocolate sold in the UK is made from...

09/10/2020

Tribune: Putting Indigenous Peoples at the heart of biodiversity conservation policies

The year 2020 promised to be a remarkable year for biodiversity protection. But the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of one truth: human health and the health of the planet are linked; destroying natural habitats exposes us to...

09/10/2020

Raising the ambition on global aspects of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy

The Farm to Fork Strategy includes a section on the external dimension entitled “Promoting the Global Transition”. The attention for the external dimension is crucial not only because the challenges the Strategy is seeking to...

08/10/2020

Press Releases

European Parliament confirms climate ambition, rejects delaying action with forests

The European Parliament approved Jytte Guteland’s report on the EU Climate law and endorsed a 60% emission reductions target, rejecting amendments combining emission reductions and carbon dioxide (CO2) removals into the same...

08/10/2020

Press Releases

European Parliament Own Initiative report on the EU Forest Strategy – nature loses, industry wins again

On 7 October, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Agriculture Committee’s report on the Forest Strategy. It is a confusing result. MEPs have said they wish to stop the loss of the world’s last remaining natural forests,...

08/10/2020

News

COVID-19 in the Central African Republic: civil society’s response to the pandemic

The World Health Organisation (WHO) considers the Central African health system to be among the most fragile in the world, making the country particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health protocols have been in...

02/10/2020

Events

Tackling deforestation through EU due diligence: lessons and proposals from Brazil

The webinar discussed how to trace Brazilian agricultural exports to the EU and how a deforestation and land rights observatory could help EU companies perform due diligence to remove deforestation and human rights violations from...

01/10/2020

Blogs

Luxury car brands are helping fuel the destruction of precious South American forests

While international attention rightly remains focussed on the unrelenting destruction of Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, 1,000 kilometres to the south, Latin America’s second most important forest – in terms of size...

29/09/2020

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