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News, Forest Watch

European Parliament votes to strengthen the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

MEPs have defended the hopes of European consumers who consistently express the desire for the removal of deforestation-laced products from the EU market.

22/09/2022

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 278 - September 2022

NGOs react to European Parliament votes on issues that will impact forests worldwide

22/09/2022

Press Releases

European Parliament's biomass proposal ignores realities of the climate crisis

The proposal maintains some incentives that encourage energy companies to burn forests

14/09/2022

Press Releases

European Parliament champions Indigenous Peoples’ rights in landmark deforestation law

The European Parliament has heeded calls by Indigenous Peoples, NGOs and European Union (EU) citizens by voting for Indigenous Peoples’ rights to be upheld in the EU’s landmark Regulation on deforestation-free products.

Members...

13/09/2022

A Just Transition for Smallholders

MEPs have a crucial chance to ensure smallholders around the world don’t pay the price for EU efforts to end deforestation.

12/09/2022

Briefing Notes

A carbon bomb in the heart of Europe

Will the EU biomass loophole give a lifeline to energy giant EPH’s coal power plants?

08/09/2022

New poll reveals support for EU action to stop companies from selling forest-ravaging goods

A strong majority of Europeans think businesses are failing in their responsibility to protect the world’s forests and therefore support a new law to ban products that destroy them.

02/09/2022

A fond farewell to a great advocate for a better world

It was with great sadness, and disbelief, that we learned that Sandra Smithey had unexpectedly passed away at the beginning of August 2022, just a few weeks after her 62nd birthday.

31/08/2022

Reports

Ten things the legislative proposal on EU forest observation, reporting and data collection needs to consider

Member States are presently required to undertake limited EU level forest monitoring. This is problematic since forests are key to meeting EU biodiversity and climate goals, and there is a fast deteriorating trend in both. The...

18/07/2022

News, Forest Watch

Enforcing EU law: Defending forests and biodiversity, from complaint to Court

Member States who fail to implement EU biodiversity laws may want to rethink their approach given recent decisions by the European Court of Justice.

13/07/2022