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A sustainable bioeconomy for Europe?

In October 2018, six years after it was first released, the EU published its updated bioeconomy strategy. The strategy targets “all sectors and systems that rely on biological resources”, and aims to encourage healthy ecosystems,...

21/11/2018

News

Governments acknowledge urgency of halting deforestation

The EU must act by year’s end to address deforestation caused by Europeans’ consumption of products like palm oil, soy, and cocoa. This was the point underscored by the governments of Germany, France, the UK, Denmark, the...

21/11/2018

News

Brazzaville Forest Governance Forum states: Time to listen to local communities

In order to halt deforestation and protect the climate, communities must have a say in how forests are managed; and activities involving forests must not threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on those vital resources....

21/11/2018

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 240 - November 2018

21/11/2018

Press Releases

Pressure mounts on EU to act as France calls for action on deforestation

Brussels – The French government has just published a new national strategy to combat the deforestation caused by its imports of soy, palm oil, beef, cocoa and wood. They have set themselves the target of ending so-called...

14/11/2018

Events

Missing pathways: resilient land solutions in the EU long-term strategy

What role do forests, land and food systems play in limiting warming to 1.5 degrees? And what can the EU do about it?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on keeping global warming below 1.5...

12/11/2018

Press Releases

The Dark Side of the Bioeconomy: Climate Catastrophe, Forest Destruction, and Human Rights Abuses

Over 115 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform”.

An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries today warns that the rapid global growth of the so-called...

07/11/2018

Blogs

What Europe can do if Bolsonaro attacks the Amazon

The views of the man on the brink of leading the planet’s fourth largest democracy have attracted global notoriety since his shock victory in Brazil’s first-round presidential election earlier this month.

Jair Bolsonaro would...

26/10/2018

Briefing Notes

EU consumption of rubber and deforestation

Natural rubber plantations emerged as a significant source of deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the first decade of the 21st century.

Three quarters of the world’s natural rubber production goes to...

25/10/2018

Audited Finances

Financial Statements for the year ending 31 December 2017

24/10/2018