Publications & Insight

Briefing notes

Speaking truth to power: The village women taking on the palm oil giant

The Société Financière des Caoutchouc (Socfin) group is among the world’s biggest independent plantation owners, managing 187,000 hectares of mostly oil palm and rubber plantations in Asia and Africa, where it has been operating...

20/09/2018

News

The fire next time: addressing future European blazes

Inside the Arctic Circle, in Sweden, Latvia, Finland, Norway, and –...

19/09/2018

News

EU decarbonisation strategy must heed recent science on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) – a controversial technology that proposes to capture the carbon emissions from burning trees and vegetable oils and bury it underground – may not actually remove carbon dioxide...

19/09/2018

News

Humane chocolate: Companies and other stakeholders push for binding legislation

The European Union (EU) must put in place in a law to ensure its cocoa imports are free from child labour and deforestation, said participants at a hearing in the European Parliament on 11 July 2018.

The call for a binding...

19/09/2018

News

Groundbreaking report sends strong message to the EU on the forest crisis

Now is the time for greater leadership from the Commission and EU Member States to end tropical deforestation and support governance reforms. The European Parliament’s new report ‘natural resource management, the case of forests’ ...

19/09/2018

News

French Environment Minister resigns to jolt EU leaders out of climate complacency

The surprise resignation of Nicolas Hulot, French Minister of Environment and celebrity environmentalist, is a loud wake-up call for Macron’s government as well as for all European leaders to recognise the current climate crisis...

19/09/2018

News

Announcements

Last week NGOs launched a EU Forest Manifesto calling for political groups, candidates for the European elections and EU leaders to support forests and forest peoples in their work.

This summer, the European Parliament passed a...

19/09/2018

Forest watch

Forest Watch 238 - September 2018

19/09/2018

Blogs

EU-Japan free trade deal threatens the fight for legal timber

While moves towards greater international cooperation are welcome, the EU’s growing number of new free trade deals must be scrutinised. And in the case of the Japan-EU free trade agreement, the deal’s impact on the fight against...

12/09/2018

Briefing notes

The EU-Japan Free Trade Deal: a threat to the fight against illegal timber?

The Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement is likely to boost incentives for illegal or unsustainable practices in many countries where Japan sources its timber and wood products. It could also sabotage the EU’s own fight against illegal...

12/09/2018